This Snappy Mousetrap Video Nails Why Social Distancing Is So Important

It’s one snappy way to highlight the importance of social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic: The Ohio Department of Health on Thursday released a simple, yet stunningly effective, PSA featuring dozens of pingpong balls and mousetraps.

Check out the video, which gained more than 5.8 million views in its first 20 hours on Twitter:

Andy Nick, from the Dayton, Ohio, creative agency Real Art that produced the video, revealed in a series of tweets that the first shot took eight hours to set up:

He also disclosed the measures his team took to ensure the throw at the end of the video was filmed in a single take:

Nick did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for further information.