What are the benefits of “don’t go outside at all” vs “don’t take walks, if you make sure to never be within 10 feet of people?” (I suppose how achievable this is depends on where you live. I guess I couldn’t do it in NYC, but could do it in Berkeley easily)
I’m curious about this too. My partner and I love to go out on night walks, around 12-3am. Our apartment door opens directly to an open to the outside hallway and we very rarely encounter others at this time. Therefore I assume that even under a self quarantine situation, it should be fine to continue these walks?
I live in an apartment complex in a large city, so I am likely to meet people near elevator. There are also a lot of people on the streets during the day and to reach nearest park I need to walk 15 minutes by streets. Maybe I can walk outside at 3 AM.
It wonder if this would be a good use case for normal face masks. Presumably they decrease the distance the virus would travel if you coughed (and also warn other people to keep their distance). Unfortunately I’m having trouble finding any research on this (everyone seems interested in masks to protect the wearer, or long term use, not short term use to prevent infecting others).
I used to think CDC recommendations were not great but better than nothing. I’ve changed my mind after seeing them say coronavirus can’t survive on surfaces for very long, so I’m retracting this comment.
I had heard the 6 feet rule (which roughly matches my “how far I think people can usually spit”), but didn’t know where I had heard it from, and scaled it up a bit for additional margin of error based on my intuitive knowledge of cough physics.
What are the benefits of “don’t go outside at all” vs “don’t take walks, if you make sure to never be within 10 feet of people?” (I suppose how achievable this is depends on where you live. I guess I couldn’t do it in NYC, but could do it in Berkeley easily)
I’m curious about this too. My partner and I love to go out on night walks, around 12-3am. Our apartment door opens directly to an open to the outside hallway and we very rarely encounter others at this time. Therefore I assume that even under a self quarantine situation, it should be fine to continue these walks?
Having full face mask will be actual protection as well as gloves. .
I live in an apartment complex in a large city, so I am likely to meet people near elevator. There are also a lot of people on the streets during the day and to reach nearest park I need to walk 15 minutes by streets. Maybe I can walk outside at 3 AM.
It wonder if this would be a good use case for normal face masks. Presumably they decrease the distance the virus would travel if you coughed (and also warn other people to keep their distance). Unfortunately I’m having trouble finding any research on this (everyone seems interested in masks to protect the wearer, or long term use, not short term use to prevent infecting others).
CDC says 6 feet is safe, but not what that’s based on.
I used to think CDC recommendations were not great but better than nothing. I’ve changed my mind after seeing them say coronavirus can’t survive on surfaces for very long, so I’m retracting this comment.
I had heard the 6 feet rule (which roughly matches my “how far I think people can usually spit”), but didn’t know where I had heard it from, and scaled it up a bit for additional margin of error based on my intuitive knowledge of cough physics.