Article content“Even in the absence of threat,” philosopher Ophelia Deroy and colleagues wrote at the very start of the COVID-19 calamity, “spatial distancing is unnatural.” Like other primates, humans crave contact. Faced with danger, we instinctively want to huddle even closer. Which may help explain why, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson mulls the idea of reducing the U.K.’s physical distancing rule from two metres to one and Quebec reduces it in some circumstances, new polling shows Canadians are having a harder time staying apart. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. There is still a lot of anxiety out thereSocial distancing “enjoys the least success” among 18 to 24 year olds, the poll found, while Ontario saw the biggest week-to-week “erosion” in social distancing, along with Quebec and Alberta, according to the Association for Canadian Studies – Leger poll, which raises the question, will Canada be the last country to cling to the two-metre edict?

Source: National Post June 16, 2020 11:02 UTC