Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Several weeks ago I was listening to a medical expert who laughed about people who think they are in danger of acquiring COVOD-19 from a FedEx driver’s pen.

 

This. The fact I live in one of the less densely housed sections of a suburban town gives me leeway there. It is easy to avoid others while on foot. That's why I keep masks at the front door (in case someone comes to the door) and in my car.

 

I keep a disposable mask in my pocket or bike bag just in case I decide to stop in some place. I'll throw one in my golf bag today though I doubt I'll have any reason to use it. Clubhouse where I'm playing is closed.

 

This is mostly what I am saying, too. I would probably not go to an NFL football game. But I disagree that you can catch COVID-19 walking or bicycling past a person outside. Maybe theoretically you could but in the same way saccharine could give lab rats cancer. 1 in a billion chances.

 

stop

 

That outdoor ventilation worked well for all those Italians at that soccer game.

 

This is a good explanation.

Why you’re unlikely to get the coronavirus from runners or cyclists

“Rasmussen and Kasten both noted that a perfect sequence of events has to happen for a virus to jump from an infected passerby outdoors to you. The particles — enough of them to be able to kickstart an infection — have to spray out of the passerby with enough force to make their way over to you. The virus inside the particles has to survive while sunlight, humidity, wind, and other forces work to decay and disperse them. The particles have to land right in your upper throat or respiratory tract — or on your hands, which you then use to touch your eyes, nose, or mouth — and they have to get past all the barriers to infection in the respiratory system, like nose hairs and mucus. Then they have to dock up with your cells’ ACE-2 receptors and use them to enter the cells.

”This is a pretty arduous sequence to execute properly, and it’s even more difficult for the virus if everyone involved — say, both you and the runner in front of you — is wearing a mask. You can see why, if you’re standing outdoors several feet away from an infected person, the virus might have a hard time making its way over to you at a high enough dose to actually infect you.”

 

Seated cheek by jowl with 70,000 people for two hours, all of whom are shouting, is not "being outside" as it's being discussed here.

 

Just got an email from one of the medical/hospital companies associated with my doctors, my eye doctors and surgeons in this case, telling me and all their other patients in a big big operation, Mass. General, please call and/or come in if you're feeling sick and it's not the virus. There's a cooperative ad campaign with all the major hospitals here urging the same thing. So they are worried this is an issue.