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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the person/people on here asking for confirmation of any cases from brief sidewalk contact - why? Are you epidemiologists? Have you just ignored the hundreds of scientists who have explained countless times in the media why we should all be wearing masks whenever we leave home? Is wearing a mask that difficult? I get that kids don’t like them but none of us have ever done this before. The kids (and adults) are going to have to figure out how to make some changes. Almost every news outlet has stories with actual epidemiologists PLEADING with people to understand why we need mask compliance. Why aren’t you listening? I honestly do not get it.[/quote]

I don't get why you insist on passing someone on the sidewalk close up in a pandemic? Can you explain that?

If we were in a park or trail where it's not always possible to be 6 feet away we wear masks. But the only place we are going these days with sidewalks is our neighborhood. We are five months into this and I go on walks a few times a day in my hood. Never, not once, have I been forced to be less than 6 feet away from someone. If I/we see someone coming, I simply move out into the street or cross the street. It's not that hard!
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Plenty of people are not doing that. Even at parks where the trails are narrow. Most look shocked someone else noticed there is a public park. We wear our masks, and not as chinstraps on trails as we know there will likely be others. There is also the very real issue of people thinking that 3 feet is 6. [/quote]

DP. you yourself are free to move. [b]By now people realize that no one's getting covid from briefly passing somebody 3ft instead of 6ft[/b]. Of all the kinds of human interactions going on all day every day everywhere, it's obvious that there isn't transmission this way. If it makes you anxious, then the onus is on you to move if it will make you feel better, since the risk just isn't there. And especially if you are walking side by side - you lose the right to complain about others not giving you space if you're not walking single file. [/quote]

Again, HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS? Are you an epidemiologist? Infectious disease specialist? I'm guessing not. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

And no, the onus is not on me to move 6 feet away from your unmasked face. It's on ALL OF US (you, me, our kids) to wear masks to mitigate any possible risk. [/quote]

Not PP, but many experts have addressed this.  It is [u]extremely unlikely[/u] that you will inhale [u]enough[/u] virus particles to result in an infection when someone simply passes you on the street.

[b]It would most likely occur while you were stopped talking to them, said Julian Tang, a virologist and a professor at the University of Leicester in England. He thinks the risk of infection from quickly passing someone is low, because the “massive air volume will dilute any exhaled virus and the wind may carry it away.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/health/running-exercising-masks-coronavirus.html

[b]“The virus load is important,” said Eugene Chudnovsky, a physicist at Lehman College and the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. “A single virus will not make anyone sick; it will be immediately destroyed by the immune system. The belief is that one needs a few hundred to a few thousand of SARS-CoV-2 viruses to overwhelm the immune response.”[/b]

[b]While the risk of outdoor transmission is low, it can happen. In one study of more than 7,300 cases in China, just one was connected to outdoor transmission. In that case, a 27-year-old man had a conversation outdoors with a traveler who had just returned from Wuhan. Seven days later, he had his first symptoms of Covid-19.[/b]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/coronavirus-what-to-do-outside.html[/quote]

These articles are several months old. I’m not sure you should be going by such old information. New information is being assessed daily. [/quote]

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