Students wear social distancing headgears as schools resume in China

A twitter user,  eileen chengyin chow @chowleen shared pictures of Chinese students in the class room putting on social distancing head gears as school resumed

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She wrote;

”First graders back to school in Hangzhou, with social distancing headgear

The long horizontal plumes on Song Dynasty toppers were supposedly to prevent officials from conspiring sotto voce with one another while at court—so social distancing was in fact their original function!”