As of today, the rationale for deploying the distancing measure in public is that COVID-19 spreads through means such as touching, coughing and sneezing.

And to make shew of his dreadlesse magnanimitie, having caused a pan of burning coales to be brought, he saw and suffred his right arme[…]to be parched and wel-nigh rosted-off[…].

At the press conference, the Prime Minister appeared to be stonewalling when asked about tax increases.

The concept of an Age of Nationalism is a bit procrustean.