30/04/2020
There is nothing new about social distancing.
During times of plague, the people of York would quarantine anyone who had been in contact with the disease, to the motors outside of the town. People would take food and beer to those in isolation, and leave it at the Hob Stone to be collected. The small bowl carved into the stone would be filled with vinegar and coins dropped in. This was payment for the provisions, and the vinegar sterilised the coins so the disease would not spread #
