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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cannot understand the kind of person who gets bothered by this.

Do you know how covid is spread? You need close, unventilated interactions for a period of time. There is zero indication covid is being spread running around in open, outdoor playgrounds, especially if kids are not constantly on top of each other.

What's even worse is these mask strictists often pretend to support science. I feel so bad for the kids who have parents that have uncontrolled mental health and rope the kids into their issues. [/quote]

Actually this is factually not accurate. 6% of cases are outdoor transmission. In one case, for instance, two people talked for 15 min outdoors. So if you’re doing things for longer with people and downwind you can absolutely have a risk of transmission. Also depends on whether that person is a super spreader.[/quote]

I assume you got your 6% from the database discussed in this 538 article. Read more carefully, the 6% was out doors or PARTIALLY outdoors.  So it’s like people throwing around the rose garden super spreader party as an example of outdoor transmission, even though a portion of the event was indoors. The outdoor transmission the database did find was at busy markets and rallies. If you’ve ever been to a market in China, you probably know it’s way more crowded than a playground in the DMV.

“For example, in a study of 7,324 Chinese case reports, only two — part of the same transmission event — could be linked to outdoor settings. A database of more than 20,000 cases (including the 7,324 Chinese cases) found 461 that were associated with transmission in completely outdoor environments — predominantly crowded events like markets and rallies. Overall, only 6 percent of all the cases in that database were linked to events that were either totally or partially outdoors.”

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-summer-of-covid-19-taught-scientists-about-indoor-vs-outdoor-transmission/[/quote]

The data does seem to suggest that it is much less likely that you will contract Covid outdoors.  However, it is not zero either, as some PPs on this and other threads would like to suggest.  Being outside is not a magic bullet, it is just much much better.  Proximity and time of close proximity are the other factors.

In some circumstance, masks outdoors are still a good idea.  In other circumstances, people going without them should not cause great upset. Indoors, however, put your damn mask on.

At the end of the day, people have lots of reasons why they might have their mask on outdoors and they are not obliged to share them with you. [/quote]

+100
Well said.
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But you realize the topic of this thread is someone complaining about maskless families outdoors. Mask up outside if you want. [/quote]

Reading comprehension is not your strength?

These families should absolutely wear masks on the playground.

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If you think about outdoor mask mandates in absolute terms, nuance is not your strength.[/quote]
Huh?[/quote]

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