tessar wrote:
Generally science is about "decoupling from the real world" in order to break it down into smaller problems that are solvable or understandable. Newton's theory of gravity? Outright wrong on so many levels, but it's a very good approximation.
Yes, the study has limitations just like every study does. But it shows evidence that scaling distances to account for velocity is more than just a thought experiment.
I totally get how science and studies work (I have a company filled with data scientists and their models are used in the real world to predict and control things in real life....and you have to start somewhere). But we're always adjusting to reality as the fitting of the actions to the data has a learning period where you reiterate.
Intially you have a void of info and need to make some assumptions and then you take actions extrapolating a bit based on the proven knowledge at hand.
This study WAS NOT PEER REVIEWED and has several holes and I pointed out to you the biggest hole that does not take into account cross winds and turbulence. it does not even take into account the concentration of infectable particles that you may or may not be exposed to.
As such, a non peer reviewed WHITEPAPER (not a proper study) is put out as fact, it goes viral and it is used by the rest of the world to shame joggers, runners and cyclists in an "us vs them" battle, when we're all fighting about something where there is hardly any risk.
Here as a counter point on the same article being treated as gospel:
https://www.vice.com/...l3sAFdWxz43G0PszArjM One part of the text:
Crucially, scientists are still unsure how well the coronavirus spreads in the air, and many have cautiously speculated that the overall risk of transmission appears to be less outdoors. Globules and droplets do likely carry the virus, but that doesn’t mean that anyone who gets a droplet on them from someone’s breath is going to be infected. Transmission depends on a host of factors; scientists believe an important one of these is “viral load,” which is a measure of how much of the virus is present.