A New Perspective: 6 Feet Apart

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Brianna Ortega

My grandmother Kathleen Moore and her cat Cookie look through her window. Before the virus, I would often visit my grandmother to pet her cats and make cookies, but the 6 feet rule has cut this down to saying hello through a screen window.

Brianna Ortega, Contributor

On March 31st, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the 6 feet social distancing recommendation into place to slow the Coronavirus from spreading from person to person. Keeping this distance would significantly reduce your chance of contracting the virus. For many of us, this meant being apart from family members and loved ones. Here’s what social distancing looked like for me: