The only thing we can think of how my husband got the virus was being unmasked at a park and a jogger running close to him. So please stop with this nonscientific stuff. Masks outside are as important around other people as inside. The protesters wore masks.
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I'm sorry that your family had infections! That said, the likelihood that a *passing* jogger, even if unmasked, infected your husband would go hard against six months of epidemiological data. The quite rare outdoor cases we know of involve talking, at close distance, at length.
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Replying to @zeynep @neeratanden and
I've been a long-time mask advocate—long before it was accepted, have published extensively on this. While I do advocate people wear masks around people—even outdoors—all the aerosol scientists I interviewed with were fairly comfortable running or walking outdoors without masks.
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Indeed, if short-range aerosol transmission outdoors was that infective, even in a passing moment, from a jogger no-less (a healthy person), we'd have billions of infections. Not denying the possibility or your experience, but... there really is a lot of data by now.
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zeynep, how do you feel about outdoor sports that involve lots of person-on-person defensive coverage and incidental contact (e.g. soccer, basketball, ultimate)?
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No go in this environment if there is close-contact or panting in each other's face for any length of time! (Jogger passing by would have aerosols in the slipstream; they'd quickly get diluted and it would barely last a second. Still, joggers should not get too close. Impolite).
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