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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is not once single case in the entire world of covid being transferred passing someone on a sidewalk. No mask.

If you're huddled and staying close to people outside, yes, not a bad idea.

But just a pass of someone? Totally and completely unnecessary. [/quote]

No one can possibly know if covid was transferred by an umasked person on the sidewalk.  Why wouldn’t this highly contagious virus be transmitted with one sneeze outside?

Better safe than sorry.  Plus it’s easier for my kids to accept “always” rather than “sometimes”.  We are all masked anytime we leave our yard or house.  [/quote]

Of course it can be traced - if one highly infectious person is walking and passing people, surely a couple of people will get infected. They ask where they've been lately, and this would be their commonality. I get that tracing isn't happening often, but if there is not ONE SINGLE CONFIRMED CASE in ANY city, ANY county, ANY state, or ANY country? It's not happening. And all data points to viral load + time being a major, major concern. Someone would have to sneeze directly into your mouth for this to happen. Don't let other people sneeze directly into your mouth.

You can be cautious, and then there's being irrational against all evidence. This is the latter. Clustered and huddled outside? Sure, mask up. An incredibly brief pass? Pretty much impossible. [/quote]

No, my mother assumes that she got covid from someone she passed outside on her daily walk as she has absolutely zero contact with anyone else for two months.  No grocery store, no friends, no doctors - no one.  She couldn’t have been infected any other way.  [/quote]

Sorry, I don't believe this. It defies all science. Everyone says I've basically been isolating except for that one time!" There's a lot of dishonesty about many infectious people and how much they've actually not been social distancing. [/quote]

Disbelieve at your own peril, PP.  My mother walked every single day and simply passed other walkers outside.  It’s the only place she could have contracted it (and possibly spread it).  [/quote]

Was she living with anyone else who may have been an asymptomatic carrier?  Surface transmission is also possible.  One epidemiology study in China indicated that the likeliest source of transmission for residents of a building were elevator surfaces (buttons).[/quote]

No.  My mother lives in a small house alone.  The doctors ruled out her contracting it from delivered groceries left outside her door or mail.  [/quote]

Uh huh. I’m not buying that the older woman who lives alone and goes on daily walks in her neighborhood never, not once stopped and chatted, had a longer conversation, spoke to literally no one for months on end then suddenly got covid. Your mom’s not telling you the whole story. Maybe she’s having a torrid affair with a neighbor. That’s far more likely than getting covid from a maybe 3 second pass of someone on the sidewalk. I mean come on. [/quote]

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