The Importance of Social Distancing in a Pandemic

The R0 for this virus is not set in stone or pre-ordained. You do not want to be a vector for this disease. Our grandparents generation was called to fight in far-flung lands. We're being called to stay at home. So why is social distancing so important? The logic of banning large events is to cut the tail of this distribution, that is, to remove the super spreaders and thereby lower the average R0.