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Social Distancing During Walking, Running & Cycling – White Paper
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Apr 10, 2020 at 10:58 am #3640726
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
Apr 10, 2020 at 11:09 am #3640727If you are going outdoors, what precautions are you taking? (Wanted to add that to the first post, but couldn’t edit).
Apr 10, 2020 at 11:31 am #3640730I 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.
Apr 10, 2020 at 11:55 am #3640734Hey stranger.
I still go to work as usual where it is impossible to stay six feet away from masked customers. Much hand washing
Apr 10, 2020 at 12:16 pm #3640735A 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.
Apr 10, 2020 at 12:32 pm #3640738Interesting 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
Apr 10, 2020 at 3:55 pm #3640771“If everyone wears a simple mask, droplet spread virtually stops.”
Maybe not –
Apr 10, 2020 at 6:14 pm #3640839Or maybe there are lots of problems with that AIM paper; see the many comments posted with it.
— Rex
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