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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Masks are only recommended outside when 6’ of distance can’t be maintained. It’s fine. Really.

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Not true. Even for fully vaccinated people CDC recommends to: "continue to wear masks [b]and[/b] stay 6 feet apart from other people in other settings, like when they are in public or visiting with unvaccinated people from multiple households.[/quote]

Not sure why the CDC guidelines are gospel for so many. The six feet rule is baloney.

“The exact origins of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s six-foot social distancing guideline are unclear, according to Lindsey Marr, an expert on viral transmission and professor at Virginia Tech.

“It’s almost like it was pulled out of thin air,” Marr told the New York Times.” /

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/cdc-six-foot-school-distancing-181926895.html
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that’s interesting because this same researcher from VA Tech is quoted in an August WAPO article saying:

“I think six feet is a fine number, but we need to convey that this is a starting point,” said Linsey Marr, a Virginia Tech civil and environmental engineering professor, who has studied airborne viruses and was not involved with the BMJ report. “Beyond six feet doesn’t mean there’s zero risk.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/27/coronavirus-social-distancing-6-feet/

It was the same article with the study that mentioned this:

The conventional wisdom behind six-foot separations originated from research by a German biologist, Carl Flügge, who in the late 1800s suggested that was as far as microbe-containing droplets could travel. Unfortunately, his hypothesis missed farther-flung particles invisible to the naked eye — in particular, the tiny gobs of bodily fluid and virus that float on the air as aerosols.

came up with this chart from a study that talked about risk of transmission in different settings.

[img]https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/ZI45GQV3TFD5XBOE7DZ3UDOWDE.jpg&w=916[/img][/quote]

Thank you! This is a great chart.[/quote]

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