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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Replying to @zeynep @neeratanden and
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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Replying to @noelcourage @neeratanden and
Yes, we know about asymptomatic transmission for sure, and the viral load data is mixed. That said, there is genuinely six months a literature and a lot of science behind the idea outdoors is different, and duration (passing by) and place (outdoors, UV deactivation) does matter.
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I'm not saying people should get close to others outdoors but they're just not equal nor as important re:mask wearing (within sensible behavior) to indoors.
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