Why People Are Failing to Maintain Physical Distancing?

With the coronavirus spreading in a bigger way all over the US, it is prominent people are suffering from community spread. Such community spreading is a clear message that people failed to maintain social distancing at an earlier time. However, several shops pasted physical distancing stickers on the floors but several didn’t take that seriously. Therefore, several people got affected by each other. The current article is all about the reasons why social distancing and physical distancing has failed.

Generalizing

Even at the start of this pandemic, people of the US didn’t take the matter seriously. The youth were still partying on the streets and the clubs. The government has failed to make them understand the importance of social distancing. People have somewhere overgeneralized the matter. The virus has turned into the worst as people thought it to be like SARS and H1N1 which has been dealt with easily. People didn’t figure out the ease of transmission and the ability for asymptomatic people to spread it. Therefore, ultimately the over-generalizing mentality stops them to maintain the proper social distancing.

Emotions Triumph of Reality

People thought that maintain social distancing is like stay away from friends and families. Such emotional bonding often becomes the barrier behind maintain the social distancing. However, several people are there who didn’t take the virus seriously. They feel that nothing will happen to them. Such emotional foolishness becomes also a barrier when it comes to maintaining proper distancing. However, several stores placed physical distancing stickers to ensure that people maintain a proper distance, but earlier they failed due to such rigid thoughts.

Fortune Telling

One of the most hilarious things that help to spread the virus among the people is the fortune-telling. People believed that this virus will not harm them as the fortune-tellers said. Several people shared their experiences regarding the previous outbreaks. They were confident that this virus will not be tough to handle. However, in reality, it turns out to be a fatal decision.

Boredom

After the initial days of lockdown, people become bored of all these lockdowns. After two months they became furious and get out of the home. They were concern about jobs and other things. Therefore, people come on the roads by violating the physical distancing norms. Ultimately it harms them more than helping and in the US more than 18lakh people are now infected from this deadly virus.

Economic Crisis

As mentioned on the earlier point that people in fear of losing jobs and businesses come on the streets violating the lockdown. They didn’t bother the physical distancing stickers either. Therefore, ultimately it creates a situation where people forget to maintain social distancing.

Final Words

Therefore, over here you have seen why the people failed to maintain the social distancing. However, still there is a chance to fight this virus if the people will stay safe and maintain proper distancing.