Social Distancing During Walking, Running & Cycling – White Paper

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

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.

Hey stranger.

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

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.

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

“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

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

— Rex