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Social Distancing During Walking, Running & Cycling – White Paper


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    Ethan A.
    BPL Member

    @mountainwalker

    Locale: SF Bay Area & New England

    Hope you and your loved ones are all safe and well. This is something my wife and I thought about while trail running weeks ago and trying to distance as much as possible. Note that while this was covered in several credible newspapers, I haven’t fact checked it. Definitely worth consideration, especially since this virus is far easier to transmit than was first thought. The conclusion recommends far more distance than most people think they need outdoors.

    An analysis by engineers and aerodynamics specialists:

    Social Distancing v2.0: During Walking, Running and Cycling

     

    #3640727
    Ethan A.
    BPL Member

    @mountainwalker

    Locale: SF Bay Area & New England

    If you are going outdoors, what precautions are you taking? (Wanted to add that to the first post, but couldn’t edit).

    #3640730
    David Gardner
    BPL Member

    @gearmaker

    Locale: Northern California

    I go out hiking alone and wear an N95 mask. I hold my breath when I’m going by others, 30 feet in front and past.

    #3640734
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    Hey stranger.

    I still go to work as usual where it is impossible to stay six feet away from masked customers.  Much hand washing

    #3640735
    W I S N E R !
    Spectator

    @xnomanx

    A few weeks ago I did a supposedly “socially distanced” group road bike ride.

    And I’m looking at a friend in front of me, about a car length off of his rear wheel doing 25MPH, imagining breath and sweat and particles streaming off of him and flowing over me as I’m in his slipstream…

    No, I’m not that paranoid about all of this….but I did stop group rides.  I have to imagine the virus lingers in the air more than we probably realize.

    #3640738
    Rex Sanders
    BPL Member

    @rex

    Interesting but not conclusive. We don’t know what size droplets are capable of infecting people, nor how long the virus remains viable in droplets that land on different surfaces. Those problems are hinted at in the non-peer-reviewed paper.

    If everyone wears a simple mask, droplet spread virtually stops. Masks in public are required in my county, and in other areas that bent the curve successfully. I wear a Buff over mouth and nose for most trips, sometimes a folded bandana plus hair ties over the ears.

    — Rex

    #3640771
    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    “If everyone wears a simple mask, droplet spread virtually stops.”

    Maybe not –

    https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2764367/effectiveness-surgical-cotton-masks-blocking-sars-cov-2-controlled-comparison

    #3640839
    Rex Sanders
    BPL Member

    @rex

    Or maybe there are lots of problems with that AIM paper; see the many comments posted with it.

    — Rex

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