If Covid-19 lasts up to three hours in air

[Cockatiel]

Do we need to be careful not to walk where someone else has simply been? (Even if they were always well over 2m away)

Ie if someone walks on a footpath ten minutes before you and you follow the same path is there a risk?

I appreciate any outside activity should be limited as possible but just pondering this

I'd assume that is in inside, unventilated air. No?

If that’s true then that puts supermarkets in a whole new light...

True. I'm probably being ridiculous!

The NHS guidance indoors is to have well ventilated rooms if you are treating a suspected case

Outdoors it would disperse in the wind very quickly surely... the air moves much faster than you realise

No in open air it will have disappated in seconds.

I'm in a flat with stairs and a hallway that i share with three others, and a communal garden.

Where did you see it lasts in air?
It has occurred to me so I don’t like being in enclosed spaces while there’s a pandemic but haven’t heard of any research so interested

It’s about non ventilated rooms. The advice is to have a window open.

@Menora, no windows in the hall, just a front door that mainly stays locked. Shared by three households..

Ah that helps. Id been panicking about the tesco delivery as we cant leave it on the doorstep for 3 hours ....

See I'm thinking is it safe to have windows open in case it gets in my house!
Crazy I know .
I'm also wondering if it's safe drying my washing when my back garden backs onto someone else's where their kids have been out all day.
This virus is making me overthink everything

^ if it's in the air in enclosed spaces for three hours, our bins are either going out at 1am, or not at all (going by the times I've not been the one who put them out).

How long do you linger around in the hallways? Is it a long walk to your door?
The opening of the doors will create a breeze of its own I would think!

Being in the hallway with your other neighbours for half an hour with all the doors closed if they were visibly really ill might not be the best idea but you open the main door and air circulates and you avoid them I can’t see how this is a major risk. If they are ill they shouldn’t be leaving their property

Basically being on a tube = risky
Enclosed space no fresh air. Lots of people

Hanging out your washing
having open windows in your own house
or walking through a short hallway (which hopefully doesn’t contain someone coughing all over you

Should be ok

I mean hanging out my washing if the virus sticks on my clothing.
Is that totally crazy to think that?

Sorry forgot to add my back garden backs onto 3 others as it's a triangle shape and kids have been near the back fence all day. That's why I thought of the virus spreading

About 5m, plus a flight of stairs. Two of my neighbours are in and out a fair bit at the moment. I'm just extra anxious because I'm in a vulnerable group (not the isolate for three months one, but in trouble if I get it) and my neighbours don't seem to get social distancing (2m apart rule) so far.

I am worried about going downstairs
to get food/medicine deliveries etc. l don't really feel safe using the garden around them, so my going out is pretty minimal at the mo - I'm hoping to be able to plant and water seedlings outside in a few weeks though.

I have never heard of any reason to worry about CV sticking to washing in the outside air. The air moves too fast it would surely all disappear into thousands of particles