For those who don't like to click on links to articles, the Bicycling Magazine article linked in this post interviews a doctor who recommends that solo-riding is the safest course of action. It also says being outdoors by yourself is good for you and also makes clear that UV exposure kills the virus so most outdoor surfaces are probably virus free. The oft-repeated warning that bears repeating is that we don't know how long somebody can be contagious prior to that person being symptomatic. I already was pretty good about laundering my gloves, but these days, I'm washing my gloves and bandannas immediately after every ride.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 4:18:02 AM UTC-7, Fullylugged wrote: > > As a RUSA RBA, my events are still on, and I have reminded riders about > social distance, no snot rockets, don't come if you have a cough or are > sneezing etc. As ride committee chair for our local bike club, our rides > are still on, same rules. The # of riders is not large on any given > outing. We did postpone all club meetings, where groups of people would be > sitting in a closed space together. Bicycling Magazine had some input on > riding in the current situation which may be of interest: > https://www.bicycling.com/news/a31469228/cycling-during-coronavirus/ > > The science of Covid-19 is incomplete, even as researchers in many places > rush to gain traction in this area. I track the daily case #s ( > https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6) > > and while the new case curve has flattened in China, it is climbing > elsewhere. The current data shows a much more lethal disease than > influenza, and less so than SARS (also a corona virus family disease) but > more contagious than either. All the public data is also incomplete because > testing is far from universal. As I write this for example, 7.7% of the > resolved cases resulted in death. If you are not exposed to the virus, you > won't get sick with it. Pretty simple. If you have the virus, and you don't > expose anyone else, they won't get sick either. Scientists and > non-scientists can agree on that much. Stockpiles of toilet paper will not > help. Avoiding panic will help. The CDC guidelines are helpful and we > should pay attention. The more we curtail our exposure, remember to wash > our hands and not touch our faces after touching something else, the less > Covid-19 will spread. > > Repeating false but inflammatory FaceBook memes or trying to make other > non-related philosophical/political points is counter productive. The > virus doesn't care what your politics, social status, religion, or anything > else is. Working in coordination will be more helpful than bickering about > it. > > Tailwinds! > > Bruce > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4ff86c5a-12ea-465f-9162-71bd1d212ae4%40googlegroups.com.
