Trump, Making Sense? Social Distancing Contrary To Human Nature; Loneliness & Isolation Kill

Certainly the terrorist/terrorizing media will claim otherwise.  'Cause that's what the media does best!  Terrorizes. Spreads fear. Leadin' with what's bleedin' Their usual spin type manipulations.

The President signaled on Twitter that he might lift federal guidelines that urge people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and not eat in restaurants and bars.

“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” Mr. Trump tweeted late Sunday evening. “AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!”

He then proceeded to retweet several Twitter followers who suggested he should end measures meant to contain the virus.

Social distancing is so hard because it’s contrary to human nature

“Humans are just really intrinsically social creatures. We are the most extreme example of a species that’s decided that collaborating with others is going to be my entire strategy,” said Steve Cole, a professor of medicine, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine.

 Primates are social, but we are distinctly so. For starters, we are especially cooperative, a trait that some researchers say stemmed from ecological changes that forced early Homo sapiens to forage together. We are among the few species that choose to share with one another

These social skills helped our ancestors fend off predators and more efficiently gather and hunt food and raise offspring. Our emotional dependence on each other can make keeping our distance, even for the public health benefit of “flattening the curve,” feel crummy.

So important is social connection to humans that the lack of it is terrible for our health. America already has high levels of loneliness, considered a public health hazard in itself even before coronavirus isolated us further. Scientists distinguish solitude from loneliness: Lonely people are hungry for connection but have too little. And a wide body of research has found lonely people are at higher risk for a host of illnesses, including heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Social Distancing As Anti Social Behaviour Self Imposed/Enforced by the Desire to Conform