Abstract
OPINION article Front. Sociol., 12 November 2020Sec. Media Governance and the Public Sphere Volume 5 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.560681
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Political Communication and Society, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sociology
The recommendation from health authorities is to adopt nonpharmaceutical interventions such as travel restrictions, school closures, social distancing, washing hands, and wearing face masks. Though these emergency measures are certainly inconvenient, social distancing has been proven historically effective in reducing and delaying infection rates and mortality on previous influenza pandemics (1918 and 2009) (Ahmed et al, 2018) while face masks minimize the risk of spreading viral particles through respiratory droplets (Leung et al, 2020)
Social distancing guidelines against COVID-19 have become a political hot topic and compliance has roughly been defined along ideological lines: conservatives are less probable to adhere to them than liberals (Rothgerber et al, 2020)
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Political Communication and Society, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sociology. Since the 11th of March 2020, the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been declared a global pandemic by the (World Health Organization, 2020).
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