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Dan
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:26 am Reply with quote
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According to these guys it's 65 ft behind the person in front of you at 18mph and no wind.

But riding abreast is fine so long as you don't cough directly at each other.

https://www.wired.com/story/are-running-or-cycling-actually-risks-for-spreading-covid-19/

Of course none of this is peer-reviewed and little is known about the viral load needed to actually infect a person.

Which is to say, stay safe, stay smart, wash your hands and watch out for hop-ons.
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walker
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everyone who has ever done an iota of modelling or network analysis is now an infectious disease expert; it is driving me up the walls

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donavanm
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:07 pm Reply with quote
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Bro, my sisters cousins best friend is an anthropology grad student at UW and made a sick model in scikit thats says were all going to die because theyre gods trees, man.

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A team led by Steven Goodreau, a UW professor of anthropology, and Martina Morris, a UW professor emerita of sociology and statistics, launched a website on April 3 in an attempt to answer that question.
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Bo Ttorff
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:08 pm Reply with quote
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NPR reported the 66' first if it makes you feel better soft one


https://kuow.org/stories/six-feet-away-might-be-too-close-especially-if-you-re-on-the-move

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gsbarnes
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:06 am Reply with quote
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"Being intelligent - being good with numbers, or being well educated, or even winning a Nobel Prize - is not a shortcut to global factual knowledge. Experts are experts only within their field." - Hans Rosling, Factfulness

But hey, let's see what Cliff Mass has to say about it.

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dashap
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:42 am Reply with quote
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gsbarnes wrote:


But hey, let's see what Cliff Mass has to say about it.


That made me actually LOL.

Saw Professor Mass riding down the trail last Thursday in his parka on a 65 degree day. He wasn't wearing a facemask, but he did have on ski gloves.
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walker
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:58 am Reply with quote
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dashap wrote:


Saw Professor Mass riding down the trail last Thursday in his parka on a 65 degree day. He wasn't wearing a facemask, but he did have on ski gloves.


models :clap: not :clap: thermometers!

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gsbarnes
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I continue to ride about twice a week, but don't wear gloves unless it's cold. I figure if I'm touching something other than my own possessions, I'm doing something wrong.

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dashap
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:39 pm Reply with quote
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gsbarnes wrote:


But hey, let's see what Cliff Mass has to say about it.


In 3...2...1... https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/04/why-outside-air-is-safe-and-park.html
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gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 9:51 pm Reply with quote
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Cliff already wrote a post telling we should stop with the lockdowns and implement a huge testing and contact tracing system instead. This was back when we had 1/1000th of our current testing capability, which still isn't enough.

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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:38 am Reply with quote
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He's not wrong per se, but he's tone-deaf as to the reality of the logistics. Sure, we should be absolutely doing wide-scale testing - and if we WERE, many people would be able to return to a normal pattern. BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE TESTS. So, we have to stay at home.

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walker
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:29 am Reply with quote
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caustic meatloaf wrote:
He's not wrong per se, but he's tone-deaf as to the reality of the logistics. Sure, we should be absolutely doing wide-scale testing - and if we WERE, many people would be able to return to a normal pattern. BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE TESTS. So, we have to stay at home.


if you're doing public health without considering logistics, you're wrong both per se and pern't se

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