WHAT’S A METRE FOR YOU? OR MORE TO THE POINT, TWO METRES?

Two metres of separation is seen as critical to preventing transmission of the coronavirus, but who carries a tape measure? So, the City of Toronto posted signs in parks urging residents to stay one hockey stick apart. In nature-loving Oregon, about one mature white sturgeon should do it. Colorado says it’s the length of a downhill ski. Sarasota calls it the length of one beach towel; in Calgary, the suggestion is, oddly, a big llama.