People have been finding creative and unusual ways to socially distance during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Deconfinement hats – Paris
Artists wear colorful «deconfinement hats» made of papier-mache and inspired by Song dynasty headwear in China, for social distancing, at 59 Rivoli gallery in Paris priot to its reopening, June 3, 2020.
Wings – China
Elementary school students wear wings to maintain social distancing after the return to school due to ongoing concerns about the novel coronavirus, in Taiyuan, China, May 20, 2020.
Mannequins – Virginia
Patrick O’Connell, chef at The Inn at Little Washington, poses with mannequins used for distancing diners in the inn’s dining room in Washington, Va., May 20, 2020. The theatrical, life-sized mannequins are dressed to evoke the post-war ambience of the 1940s, with pearl necklaces, checkered dresses and striped suits.
Inner tubes – Maryland
Employees roll out inflatable inner tubes on wheels, to be used as social distancing tables amid the COVID-19 outbreak, at Fish Tales restaurant and bar in Ocean City, Md., May 16, 2020.
Pig balloons – Thailand
People eat dinner while pig balloons occupy seats as part of social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at a reopened restaurant after the easing of restrictions in Bangkok, May 21,2020.
Pool noodles – Georgia
Rick Cope, an Action Church member, dons his humorous home-fashioned social distance measuring device he crafted with foam noodles.The modest congregation meets in a former grocery store, April 26, 2020, in Canton, Georgia
Park circles – New York
People sit in circles meant to encourage social distancing in Domino Park along the East River, May 18, 2020, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn.
Social distance tutu – The Netherlands
Ballerina Kira Hilli of the Netherlands National Ballet dances in a tutu with a diameter of 3 meters (9.8 ft) for a video made for the 1.5 meter society, on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 4, 2020. The so-called social distance tutu is made of denim fabric, specially made for the Safe Distance Ballet
Cardboard boxes – Cuba
Retired nurse Feridia Rojas, 82, wears cardboard shaped into a house at a market to protect herself from the spread of the coronavirus, in Havana, Cuba, June 11, 2020.
Romania
Three pairs of social-distancing shoes, and on the right side a normal sized shoe for comparison, made by Romanian shoemaker Grigore Lup are presented at his workshop, in Cluj Napoca city, Romania, June 4, 2020.
Lup, 55, invented the social distancing shoes, selling for around 100 euros, in a bid to save his small business in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
Bubbleyoga – Toronto
People participate in an outdoor yoga class by LMNTS Outdoor Studio, in a dome to facilitate social distancing and proper protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19, in Toronto, June 21, 2020.
Minions – Paris
Minions are seen on cinema chairs to maintain social distancing between spectators at a MK2 cinema in Paris as city’s cinemas reopen doors to the public in France, June 22, 2020
Glasshouses – Netherlands
Staff at the Mediamatic restaurant serve food to volunteers seated in small glasshouses during a try-out of a setup which respects social distancing directives to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Amsterdam, May 5, 2020.
Customer pod – Northern Ireland
Tailor Gary Keenan of Bogart Menswear measures up a suit using a customer pod designed to keep customers safe from Covid-19 after their store reopened for business, June 12, 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Full circle face shield – London
A pedestrian wearing a form of PPE (a perspex full-face covering) as a precautionary measure against COVID-19, walks across Oxford Street in central London, on June 11, 2020.
Crowns – Germany
Burger King shows off giant social distancing crowns available in Germany.
Dining cones – Paris
A man and a woman demonstrate dining under a lampshade-like plastic shield designed by Christophe Gernigon, May 27, 2020 at the H.A.N.D. restaurant in Paris.
Pandas – Thailand
Stuffed pandas rest on chairs as a means of enforcing social distancing at a restaurant in Bangkok, May 19, 2020
Crazy maks – Philippines
Filipino artist Leeroy New poses with a makeshift mask he designed with recycled materials as he adapts to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in his studio, in Quezon City, Philippines, May 28, 2020.
