Why Were Schools Closed So Long During the Pandemic? 
        
        
            
                                                Tim Daly
                    
                                                
                            The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
            
            July 4, 2024
        
 
     
    
 
    
    
    
    
    You remember the six-foot rule. How could you forget? The Center for Disease Control (CDC) told us during Covid that social distancing—which it defined in July 2020 as a minimum of two arm lengths between oneself and other people inside and outside—was “the best way to reduce the spread of coronavirus disease.”
    
        
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