Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought the whole six-foot distance thing was primarily for outdoor activity (along with grocery stores and other large indoor spaces providing essential services), and that it was premised on the idea that six feet of distance + being outdoors or transiently indoors = minimal likely transmission?
After all, if I'm stuck in a small 8'x8' office with a COVID-19 shedder coughing for 12 hours a day, a six foot distance isn't going to stop transmission, right? That's presumably why nursing homes are vectors even where the inmates ahem residents are more than six feet apart? And same for hospitals?
And by the same token, I have never seen any claims that large crowded groups of people in close proximity for hours on end will not transmit the virus just because they're outside.
So I guess in my mind the major challenge we face is in dealing with the fact that many long-duration activities (like office work) have to take place in indoors, while many group activities that take place outdoors are not ones that can readily accommodate the six feet of distance requirement?
After all, if I'm stuck in a small 8'x8' office with a COVID-19 shedder coughing for 12 hours a day, a six foot distance isn't going to stop transmission, right? That's presumably why nursing homes are vectors even where the inmates ahem residents are more than six feet apart? And same for hospitals?
And by the same token, I have never seen any claims that large crowded groups of people in close proximity for hours on end will not transmit the virus just because they're outside.
So I guess in my mind the major challenge we face is in dealing with the fact that many long-duration activities (like office work) have to take place in indoors, while many group activities that take place outdoors are not ones that can readily accommodate the six feet of distance requirement?