'Horrifying' simulation reveals dangers of hobby jogging during the C virus lockdowns

Thanks for posting that! He should first study what the breaths of the shoppers look like in a packed grocery store and how much breath vapors get on the groceries and float around in the store.

GettingRidiculous wrote:

I'm sorry, but this whole thing is absurd. First off, that article keeps talking about coughing or sneezing while running. Here's a question for you. When is the last time you actually coughed or sneezed WHILE running? Hardly ever happens unless you swallow a bug or something. And second, is there any proof that any single person in the world has caught this thing because of running? If we were somehow able to know exactly how every single case were transmitted, I bet that IF there were any cases transmitted while running, and that's a BIG IF, that you could probably count that number on one hand. Everyone getting paranoid about exercise is just getting ridiculous.

It's very unlikely that you will catch Covid-19 out in the open air. Watch this video for practical knowledge about how it is contracted and how to avoid contracting it.

All you need is some common sense and a quick Google search to know that this "study" (really just a computer simulation with some faulty assumptions) is BS.

First off, according to the American Lung Association a cough leaves your mouth at up to 50mph, and a sneeze at up to 100mph. So it really doesn't matter if you're standing still or running at 8mph; almost all of those droplets are landing in front of you. Not that runners are coughing or sneezing a lot to begin with.

As for normal breathing, you don't need a fancy computer simulation; just go outside on a cold day. You'll note that your breath a) rapidly dissapates within about a foot of your mouth, and b) goes up, not down, since warm air rises. If their simulation were accurate, anyone who ran a cross country race on a cold day would be running in a sea of fog.

That's just stupid wrote:

This had to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. I've been running regularly for over 8 years, I've easily accumulated tens of thousands of miles and NEVER in my entire life have I bumped into someone running the same route as me at the exact same pace outside of races. What are the odds of that happening?!

So you never ran in HS or college where a group of dozen people all went out and ran at basically the same pace for an hour? Heck their is a thread on this board about 8 kids doing this and a bunch of the posters here think it is no big deal....

Post reported for making too much sense.

If you are running with 1 or more others, you should be ticketed and placed in quarantine for 14 days. Period.

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Didn't read the rest of the responses i that i was lucky enough to just hit this one first since checking in a couple of days ago.

People are using this "study" to try and ban running locally in our town. It's all over NextDoor. Time to speak up and push back people. They're going to lock everyone up. Paris has banned running.

Medium posts and non-peer reviewed studies should not be used to take away our freedoms.

pjrun wrote:

GettingRidiculous wrote:

I'm sorry, but this whole thing is absurd. First off, that article keeps talking about coughing or sneezing while running. Here's a question for you. When is the last time you actually coughed or sneezed WHILE running?

In February when I had some sort of flu. Was coughing and sneezing while running, twice a day.

Sneezed Thursday from allergies. Cough fairly often, especially the last week or so.

Dur wrote:

pjrun wrote:

In February when I had some sort of flu. Was coughing and sneezing while running, twice a day.

Sneezed Thursday from allergies. Cough fairly often, especially the last week or so.

Sneezed a few times today. Injested a lot of pollen yesterday.

Is it allergies? Should I get tested? (sarcasm implied).

stop breathing

that will stop it