Social Distancing While Cycling
Are you shedding a large flume of virus on your bike?
Alex McDonald In short, yes. Taking deeper and harder breaths when exercising likely causes more viral shedding, especially if exercising outside where the wind can blow and dissipate the virus. Taking that into consideration, it is likely that due to increased viral shedding individuals that are exercising should probably be more than 6ft apart.
Jessalyn Adam We don’t have an answer. The recommendation of staying at least 6ft apart under normal circumstances is actually based on what we know about the flu. While coronavirus behaves differently, we’re doing our best to make inferences.
That said, experts are recommending that while running you stay at least 13ft away from others. To minimize the risk as much as you can, put as much space between yourself and others as possible while biking.
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Looks like, to protect others, 4m is better than 2.
Ian aka W.G. Ross
I was sent a link to this the following website, it explains that the risk of catching the virus depends both the concentration and the duration of time. It is an interesting read:
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