re: It's time to lift the visitor restrictions at hospitals

The best example I’ve heard for our communication failure seeping into a policy failure is this ridiculous notion that we should be “social distancing”. It’s not social distance we need to combat this virus. It’s physical distance.

Physical distance can absolutely slow the spread, but we can be physically distant and remain socially close. In fact, in this heightened stress environment, we have an extra need to enhance our social closeness and strengthen our interpersonal bonds. We can do that while maintaining a physical distance. And hospitals can 100% embrace the social connection between their patients and those patients families while also maintaining physical distance between various peoples. Perhaps no group in society needs social closeness more than our sick and infirmed. Let’s stop creating bad policies that hurt them on the backs of our inability to communicate an appropriate response.