How many people before Covid-19 had heard the term ‘social distancing’, still less knew that this topic has been intensively researched since the 1950s? The biomedical world contains the specialists in understanding what is happening at the point where a virus enters (or leaves) your body, but the space between people is studied by other natural, physical, and social scientists.
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Colin Axon is senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University London. Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist, professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, and a member of various government advisory groups. These views are strictly personal
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