Walker wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:56 am
In honor of the arbitrary six-foot rule:
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
- Mark Twain
So too is the difference between the almost right six words, and the right six words.
What are they?
Let's try an analyse this.
You start by calling the "six foot rule" arbitrary. It is not. Seven would be better, but less practical. One foot means 90% infectivity, rising to 100% infectivity over a short length of time. With each foot you add the density of infectious agents landing on the other person decreased exponentailly. By a multiplier of 3.142. I can explain more if you are listening. At six feet, short term contact results in a very small chance of infection. At more than seven feet the change is already so low as to be background, at this point precautious such as ventilation make more sense.
Then you offer a completely irrelevant quote from Twain, who makes a remark about having the right words. Have you lost the plot?
Then you oddly ask for six of the best...
six feet; good words; six words.
There is not even a tenous connection here.
Go to the Head teacher for six of the best!