04/02/2021
Is outside safe from the SARS-COV2 virus?
It seems like a simple question, but the answer isn’t so simple. The CDC and NIH have always recommended to try and incorporate outdoor air into indoor settings to prevent the build up a indoor viruses in the air and on surfaces. The question is why? Well around 1990, the save the earth scientists started to raise concerns that the burning of coal and its evaporation into the earth's atmosphere would create toxic and acidic rain. However, as they began to research, what they found was that naturally, the earth creates a free radical called a Hydroxyl by splitting the H20 in the atmosphere by UV rays from the sun. These HO radicals are the second most reactive oxidants known to man and essentially were found to be the natural virus and pollutant destroyer found outdoors in nature.
So knowing this, naturally, the topic became, how many hydroxyls exist outdoors and can we reproduce them via technology and science. The outdoor concentration of Hydroxyls depends on two things: the amount of sunlight, and also the amount of humidity. So they found the range to be 2-10 million HO per cubic centimeter was the range during the day and much lower numbers at night.
Back to our question, is it safe outdoors? Well, when it is sunny and warm and decent humidity levels, The answer is yes it is safer than being indoors and your risk of infection and transmission is very low. Now, when it’s 35 degrees, low humidity, and cloudy, or dark in winter marching down a busy street for a rally... not so much
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