This video perfectly illustrates the benefits of social distancing

Mouse traps and ping pong balls to help people understand the benefits of social distancing. The Ohio Department of Health posted a video on Twitter on Thursday that perfectly and simply illustrates the need to keep our distance to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Social distancing works. We are all #InThisTogetherOhio. https://t.co/jU4ZAkm3Py ​​pic.twitter.com/uKJtfi4cuP

In this video, created by RealArt, a ping pong ball falls on mouse traps very close to each other, and on which other ping pong balls rest. The result ? The first bullet triggers a chain reaction and, very quickly, all the hatches and bullets set in motion, creating indescribable chaos.

But, when the hatches are further apart, the ball bounces without triggering a single one. Then, a very clear message appears: "Stop the spread. Social distancing works. A little bit of space puts us all safe together. "

Over 14.5 million views

The video has already been viewed more than 14.5 million times this Saturday via the post from the Ohio Department of Health (the equivalent for this American state of our Department of Health), and has been reproduced on other Twitter accounts .

Easily one of the best social distancing ads I've seen pic.twitter.com/9WhhTHmdPc

As for the most suspicious, who are already wondering how many shots were necessary to make this video - and especially its second part -, the director, Andy Nick, explained that, knowing that he had only an hour to finish filming, and it was impossible to make a perfect throw in a single take, he had decided to stick the hatches to super glue. And that he then achieved ... a perfect throw in one take.

Here's some behind the scenes ... I knew it was impossible to make the perfect throw in a single take. With only 1 hr left in the shoot (no room to start a chain reaction & reset), we used gel superglue to "freeze" the traps. And then ... I threw the perfect throw in 1 take. :)

He also published another plan of the first sequence, shot on the iPhone, and even more impressive.

A lot of people have been asking how we did the @OHdeptofhealth video (aka - the Mouse Trap project). Here's an iPhone clip of our first "shot", which took 8 hours to set up. pic.twitter.com/3xxjiiz2N5

He specifies that it was the first take, and that the installation had taken… eight hours!

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