Here's how local officials and creative citizens around the world are ensuring that people maintain proper spacing, from legally required umbrella use to spreading chicken manure in parks
Umbrellas help people in one Indian town keep their distance. Photo: @drthomasisaac/Twitter In the United States, getting people to practice safe social distancing has been accomplished largely through a combination of persuasion and punishment. If the infographics don’t convince you to keep six feet from strangers, the police-operated drones probably will.
Mandatory umbrellas Residents of Alappuzha, a city in the Indian coastal state of Kerala, are being told to use umbrellas when they go outside, regardless of the weather. Two people with open umbrellas are guaranteed to be a “minimum distance of one meter from one another,” Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac tweeted this week. The city is reportedly providing thousands of umbrellas for free to residents who don’t have them.
Threats of deluge A fire truck rolled through the streets of Santiago in the Dominican Republic last week warning people that violations of social-distancing rules would be met with a drenching. A recording broadcasted from the vehicle warned locals to maintain a two-meter distance while in public: “Respete la distancia.” In a tweet, Santiago Mayor Abel Martinez wrote that people complied without the truck “spilling a single drop of water.
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