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Originally Posted by mrnyc
hey doc, what is your take on wearing masks? i wear one doing errands, like grocery or drug store, but do i need one for a morning jog? that seems impractical for runners.
there seems to be some debate about it.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/does-w...t-coronavirus/
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I have been saying since this thread got started that I consider the WHO/US Guvmint denial of the usefulness of masks to be BS of the first order. Why does everyone in an ER wear a mask if they don't do anything? In reality, they keep virus away from your nose and mouth (the N95s do it best) both by blocking airborn droplets and by reminding you not to touch those areas. Ideally, you also need to protect your eyes with some sort of goggles or face shield.
But that said, these articles of PPE (everybody knows what that means now, right?) are mainly useful indoors and especially in crowded environments: supermarkets etc. Places where you might encounter what somebody else coughed or sneezed out or the surfaces where it settled.
I personally do not wear any of this gear (and I have it) outdoors where I can easily stay well away from other people. If you jog somewhere where you can give other joggers a wide birth, I wouldn't wear a mask. If you have to pass closely or might bump into one, maybe I would. Certainly if you have to change clothes in a public indoor space or anything like that, I would wear everything there and drown myself in hand sanitizer (frankly, if that were the case I'd forget the jogging entirely).
Not only is any breeze going to widely disperse droplets outdoors but the saying "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" may be literally true in this case. It just is very unlikley you are going to touch a surface on which someone coughed or sneezed recently enough for there to viable virus there.