Actually men are supposed to listen to advice from their wives and moms and granmothers, according to conservative values. They are then to evaluate it along with all the facts they already have and then make a decision.
The six feet apart thing came from a study that used UV light to test how long a corona virus (not covid) could survive in direct sunlight. Turns out it takes a certain amount of time to travel six feet on normal air currents and that time is enough to kill the virus in direct UV or sunlight. It did not apply to indoors or coughs or sneezes.