we've heard so much social distancing. Social distancing continues to be so important were mine. I'm for social distancing and more tests phrase that hardly existed before March. 2020 distancing is keeping enough distance between you and another person. But when COVID-19 hit the country, hard, social distancing became one of the CDCs Top recommendations stand six FT Apart. Stores measured, even marked their floors. Some people even predicted the future. We may be social distancing until at least 2022. August 12th 2022 To be exact. The CDC is now dropping, it's more restrictive COVID safety recommendations, including social distancing and quarantines, I think yeah, it's about time. Let's let's get back to life here on the side of caution.
I you know, I'm still I'm still going to be careful. People reacted to the announcement with a mixture of relief and concern Now that they're just saying we don't have any guidelines. Basically, we had it and Life has to move on health. Dr J. Wilson says the CDCs new guidelines point to a new phase for COVID-19. So we've gone from a pandemic stage to pretty much what we call an endemic stage where this thing is kind of constant in our society. He says. COVID will now be treated similarly to the flu. And while 2.5 years of restrictions is a long time Wolfson says some perspective is necessary in the days of 19 twenties, when we had the Spanish flu, tens of millions of people died from this disease, and it took decades before we really figured out how to manage it. We're really ahead of the curve right now. And although the CDCs guidance may have changed, some wonder how much impact those changes will actually have on the world. The world has changed so much in These, you know, going on 2.5 years that Are we ever going to get back to what it was? Yeah, That's the question, and Dr Wolfson says the lower death rate in the country was a critical factor in the C.
D C s decision to end its social distancing and quarantine recommendations. Chris Aaron, What did the CDC say? If anything about masks, the CDC is still recommending wearing masks indoors in areas of high community spread, which Includes all of Tampa Bay and pretty much all the Florida It's also encouraging testing for people with symptoms, and the CDC is still urging people who test positive to stay at home for at least five days and then wear a mask around others for 10 days, Chris course these are recommendations. Um Individual businesses.
