[Ads-l] "social distancing" 2015

Mark Mandel markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jul 20 20:13:43 UTC 2020


Something ironic about this...

MAM

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 12:25 PM <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

> I found an instance from November 2004:
>
> Bell, David M., et al. "Public Health Interventions and SARS Spread, 2003."
> Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10.11, November 2004, 1900-06.
>
> ... <https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/social-distance>
>
> On Behalf Of Peter Reitan
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 11:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "social distancing" 2015
>
> The expression appears with the relevant sence in Homelad Security's
> National Response Plan written in December 2004, published 2005.
>
> HathiTrust:
> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p00904134b&view=1up&seq=357
> <
>
> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p00904134b&view=1up&seq=357&
> q1=Social%20distancing
> <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p00904134b&view=1up&seq=357&q1=Social%20distancing>
> >
> ...
>
Poster:       Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      "social distancing" 2015
>
> Phrase presciently used in science fiction, 2015.
> ...
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