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Casso-wariness

It has been a while since Feedback last covered units of measurement used in guidelines for social distancing. That’s partly because we thought we had spotted all the good ones, but also, we confess, because we took our eye off the ball. So we are grateful to Simon Kravis for his example from the signage at Cairns Airport in Queensland, Australia.

the airport is planning to use the length of the cassowary – a flightless Australian bird – to keep travellers the necessary distance apart. Adult cassowaries are apparently around 1.5…