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Why Are People Not Social Distancing?

I've seen it and the New York governor also saw it this past weekend.

I believe that people's risk perception is "off." They don't perceive a risk, other than running out of toilet paper, so they want to do what they want to do; where they want to do it; and, whomever they want to do it with. Thus, some lax social distancing is being observed by people in public.

Listen to this radio interview I did on Monday, March 23 with a Seattle Radio Station, KIRO FM: We have a ‘civic responsibility’ to stay home, help slow spread.

Maybe it will get a parent to yell at their teenager. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.