Posted on 06/05/2020 5:47:10 AM PDT by daniel1212
When the coronavirus lockdowns began almost two months ago, the outdoors seemed like a scary place. It was where you could get infected by a neighbor, jogger, public bench, doorknob or any number of other things. The better move, as a popular hashtag put it, was to #StayHome.
As more virus research has emerged, however, the outdoors has begun to look safer. It still brings risks (like those doorknobs). But they are fairly small. One study of 1,245 coronavirus cases across China found that only two came from outdoors transmission.
Beside the research, something else has also begun to make outdoors seem more attractive. People have started to go stir crazy.
This combination is leading to a surge of new expert advice that might be boiled down to: Get out...
“The choice between staying home indefinitely and returning to business as usual now is a false one,” Julia Marcus of Harvard Medical School wrote in The Atlantic.
Marty Makary of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health put it this way, when I spoke to him yesterday: “The outdoors is not only good for your mental state. It’s also a safer place than indoors.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Keep pushing the narrative, NYT.
Sigh.
Typical.
Well, the slime has to justify the fact that they now want folks to “get out” so that they can wreck society.
It’s coming, folks, it’s coming.
Why don’t Leftists #StayHomeStaySafe?
They have made it unsafe to walk, breathe, or engage in commerce these past 2 weeks.
I think they should consider the 400,000 who have already Got Out. People who leave usually are those that can afford it. Just think of the tax revenue that followed them.
Edict has come from the NYet Times’ ivory tower.
article is dated 14 May...but it is almost like they were preparing excuses for future protests!
quoting Harvard/John Hopkins. what a laugh.
Virus is old news, they’ve moved on to the next crisis.
This was OBVIOUS without much “research” needed.
The obvious differences in air movement outside versus in enclosed settings tells you that air near you is dissipated more around you when you are outside than when in any enclosed settings.
Dissipated also means whatever concentrations of what is in the are are /dispersed into less concentration nearby by.
Illness caused by an infection is not merely infectious contact, but also includes a needed level of viral load, and some level of sustained contact with it. ANY viral load expelled by anyone is more greatly dissipated out of doors than indoors.
Yet the idiots in many states closed the places people NEEDED to go to - the parks.
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