The paper explores the concept of "Social Distancing" in its physical usage during the Covid-19 pandemic. By providing ethnographic data, the study shows how canceling large gatherings, closing schools and offices, quarantining individuals and even sequestering entire cities or neighborhoods were assumed to be the best ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus. However, health measures promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) created cultural problems in South Asia including Bangladesh due to cultural features of collectivity against Western biological assumptions. In addition, the paper shows how these health measures were considered as a crude and costly public health strategy. The paper argues that restricting shared spaces in turn forced families or individuals to lose childcare, emotional and social support. It also puts forth the argument that social distancing measures were insufficient to protect older, sick, homeless and isolated people who may have been the most vulnerable to the virus. What they needed was extra care and attention, social networks and relations as survival strategies in the city.