Possible great news for runners - Chinese study shows of 7,000 coronavirus infections 2 came from people outdoors

Well duh. I have been annoyed for weeks now about all the people that do not realize that the worse places for transfer are enclosed areas.

This additional scientific evidence shows that quarantining people should be abolished immediately.

In addition, mask and social distancing requirements should also be abolished.

If you aren't getting full sun as regularly as possible during all of this, you are a fool. Vitamin D via the sun is nature's preferred treatment.

Take off your shirt. Slap a nicotine patch on. Go run in the sun. No Covid19 for you.

many things to be said in favor of getting people to spend some time outside, particularly if it can be done without increasing contacts.

at the same time, nothing in that paper itself establishes that only 2 of the transmissions occurred outdoors, and they concede that at least 25% of the transmissions couldnt be linked to a specific venue.

it would not surprise me at all if outdoor transmission is a far weaker driver than confinement with or near other infected people; and i think that would be entirely consistent with the possibility that outdoor transmission is still a nontrivial driver.

basic conclusion: this paper does not suggest to me hobbyjoggers should be jogging

The paper shows absolutely NO evidence that would keep runners from running together without wearing any mask.

YMMV wrote:

https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065

If you aren't getting full sun as regularly as possible during all of this, you are a fool. Vitamin D via the sun is nature's preferred treatment.

California and Florida get a lot of sun and are doing pretty well with Corona.

TMADDOX wrote:

Take off your shirt. Slap a nicotine patch on. Go run in the sun. No Covid19 for you.

i threw up the last time i used a nicotine patch. i had no tolerance towards nicotine, and i even used the lowest dosage patch available.

Being indoors is closely linked with the spread of diseases, no doubt. On the other hand, the hottest part of Florida, Miami, is the hotbed of Coronavirus in the state and Brazil is hot and getting lots of cases.

Just because the most transmissions happen at home doesn’t mean home is not the safest for you and others. If people spend 99% of their time at home and 51% of infections occur at home....that is much safer than 1% of the time not at home and 49% of infections.

If everybody was a mile apart this would be done in once cycle.

The realistic best way to implement this would be have only one family member ever leave the home and have them quarantine within the house, staying is the basement or a bedroom with an exterior door/ window, and then isolating that room‘s air supply.

zxcvzcxv wrote:

Being indoors is closely linked with the spread of diseases, no doubt. On the other hand, the hottest part of Florida, Miami, is the hotbed of Coronavirus in the state and Brazil is hot and getting lots of cases.

If it is too warm, and it's a crowded city, people tend to stay indoors in A/C-infused buildings, a perfect setup fro spreading infection. Ideal is comfortable, sunny weather.

djfjdjdj wrote:

Just because the most transmissions happen at home doesn’t mean home is not the safest for you and others. If people spend 99% of their time at home and 51% of infections occur at home....that is much safer than 1% of the time not at home and 49% of infections.

If everybody was a mile apart this would be done in once cycle.

The realistic best way to implement this would be have only one family member ever leave the home and have them quarantine within the house, staying is the basement or a bedroom with an exterior door/ window, and then isolating that room‘s air supply.

Who spends 99% of their time at home??! You're implying that most people spend just 15 minutes per day outside? If we're counting the hours when you're awake, even just going outside for 1 hour of exercise would be closer to 7%, and I don't know anyone who only spends 1 hour outside per day.

Couldn't this also be because people are spending an overwhelmingly majority of time within their home?

Are you kidding? Most people in America anyway, only go outside to get to their car, if that.

So all from 2 came from their lab?

ghoti and tchobz wrote:

at the same time, nothing in that paper itself establishes that only 2 of the transmissions occurred outdoors, and they concede that at least 25% of the transmissions couldnt be linked to a specific venue.

If I go out jogging, catch Covid19 from being outside, and infect 4 people in my home, what percentages of the infections were a result of going out side? Is it 20% or 100%?

And it is important to realize that being outside isn't as big of deal as the activities. Running in a group of 10 where you are all breathing in each others droplets for an hour isn;t the same as walking your dog and passing someone for 10s every 10 mins. I would much rather be outside running a marathon with 10k of my closest friends than watching a basketball game indoors with those same people. But. I would really prefer not to do either.

gaylord furniture wrote:

If 6998 caught it at home, how did they catch it?

They caught from interacting with other people.

Exactly.

Therefore, quarantining and social distancing are dangerous, and should be stopped immediately.