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6 feet helps. Wearing masks helps. These things do not drop your chances to zero. 6 feet is not a universally applicable number. If you are standing directly

• clairity 6y ago
  > "All of the guidelines are about statistical safety..." this bit is correct, but the rest is falling for false equivalency by throwing around the same "helps" with every case. just being outside is overwhelmingly helpful, meaning it overwhelms every other factor by a large margin. relative to that, wearing a mask outside is of such negligible help to be effectively unhelpful. distance also overwhelms masks, both indoors and outdoors. distance outside helps only a little bit, but distance inside helps materially (because the positional and velocity vectors available to droplets and their virii and the dangers to them outside are exponentially greater). masks by themselves indoors are helpful only in limited situations (when in the direct exhaust of others for prolonged periods). > "...do not drop your chances to zero" for real-world situations, boolean evaluations like this are nearly always misleading, no matter in which direction. your chances of dying in a bathtub aren't zero either but we don't worry about it. relative magnitudes matter. yes, use your noggin.