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We need to observe and the city needs to enforce the park closures in the face of this public health crisis. It’s for everyone’s good. This guy was seen this morning morning blatantly and flagrantly violating the closure and risking public health. Shame.
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Closing the playgrounds - I understand. Want to put a fence up around the basketball court - ok. Shaming people for walking through the park when people are currently crowding the sidewalk perimeter (including the photographer) - overkill in my opinion.
Per Albert Ko, professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Yale School of Public Health, “There is better airflow outside than in confined spaces. That air flow outside reduces the risk of one person transmitting the virus to another through droplets in the air. So if you're going out and you're hiking or biking or running and you're not within, say, six feet or 10 feet of another person, I would consider that a healthy, safe practice. My personal feeling is that if people are practicing sound respiratory hygiene, sound hand hygiene, they're distancing themselves physically from others outside, and you're exercising and walking in the park — I think that's actually a good public health practice."
Full article from NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/20/819031274/coronavirus-faqs-can-i-go-running-is-food-shopping-too-risky-whats-herd-immunity