{"id":2385,"date":"2020-04-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2020-04-22T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:00:00","slug":"mind-the-gap-social-vs-physical-distancing-a-point-of-view-from-professor-ed-galea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/2020\/04\/22\/mind-the-gap-social-vs-physical-distancing-a-point-of-view-from-professor-ed-galea\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind the Gap &#8211; Social vs Physical distancing, a point of view from Professor Ed Galea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2389\" width=\"378\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/1-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 may have changed our lives forever. Why? It seems uniquely designed to create segregation, while attempting to nest us, confused? So am I. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conflicting information on how to stay safe, protect yourself and others, is thrown at us every day; &#8216;stay home, go out, use a mask, don&#8217;t use it, outdoor exercise, no outdoor exercise&#8217;&#8230; At least, one thing we&#8217;re clear &#8211; keep your distance! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily for us, Greenwich&#8217;s own Professor Ed Galea managed to give a different view on what is being said about social distancing and how to do it responsibly. The Professor writes a series of articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/social-distancing-what-ed-galea\">LinkedIn<\/a> that may just change our minds and behaviours when out and about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Home, Stay Safe, Save Lives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/2hSa4OGZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/2hSa4OGZ.jpg 466w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/2hSa4OGZ-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><figcaption>Image credits: Prof Ed Galea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 may have changed our lives forever. Why? It seems uniquely designed to create segregation, while attempting to nest us, confused? So am I. Conflicting information on how to stay safe, protect yourself and others, is thrown at us every day; &#8216;stay home, go out, use a mask, don&#8217;t use it, outdoor exercise, no outdoor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/2020\/04\/22\/mind-the-gap-social-vs-physical-distancing-a-point-of-view-from-professor-ed-galea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mind the Gap &#8211; Social vs Physical distancing, a point of view from Professor Ed Galea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication","category-research","tag-school-of-computing-and-mathematics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}