The Montour trail in Pittsburgh has been PACKED with people. There have posts about bikers spit flying on people et cetera & bikers putting pool noodles on their bikes to keep others 6 ft away. Also lots of good people doing what they should to protect themselves & others.
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I think we should look into separating runners from walkers and other congestion management techniques (like with traffic) so that people can have access to outdoors/exercise (essential) without increasing anxiety/risk (not good!). Key is maintaining distance.
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Replying to @zeynep @lorakolodny
So only runners run in a huffing-and-puffing runner's wake? That doesn't mitigate the runners aerosol wake reality much, does it?
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I would personally not consider running behind a runner outdoor to be high-risk, especially if everyone ran in the same direction and kept a few feet apart. (It's not at all proven that there is aerosol (tiny floating) rather than droplets (larger)).
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What about these? March 17 MIT https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763852 … March 26 MIT hhttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763852
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Replying to @ztopiapub @lorakolodny
Good to explore but if there was such sustained transmission *outdoors*, we would be looking at very very different numbers. That's relevant for ventilation systems in hospitals (closed ventilation/high dose due to concentration of sick people). Not true in a running trail.
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Do we have data that illustrates a sidewalk on a still day is different from a grocery store aisle?
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27 Feet indoors. Is a sidewalk on a still day really so different? A walker, walking in the wake of a runner? Doesn't feel safe it to me personally. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/6-feet-of-social-distancing-not-nearly-enough-cdcs-recommendation-driving-some-experts-nuts.html …
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I share the concern about indoors (poorer ventilation). I think runners/walkers should be separated when possible. But that article has huge errors. The "three hours in the air" came from a study where they aerosolized it ON PURPOSE IN A MACHINE. So, author is unqualified.
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Wanted to mention this yesterday, but didn’t have a good source on had. Sneeze parameters like this used in modeling. Seems quite a challenge to really know what is going on.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352352215000067 …
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Thank you! What a complicated process. In a local grocery store last week, I saw plexiglass (wide and tall) separating the customer from the grocery store clerk. I think that's an awesome idea. Probably need that for lots of places that can't close down.
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Yes! I’ve seen them being installed in many place. I’m currently up in the little village of Sheffield, PA in the middle of the Allegheny National Forest, and even their small store had plastic shields & everyone is wearing masks & gloves. Fear is a great motivator.
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