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Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses... by _euac on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:21PM (#27210741)
How exactly would you confirm - beyond any doubt - that contagion happened outside? Most people live most of their lives inside a building of one sort or another, so it'd be almost impossible to 'document' a case of outside transmission.

The closest thing we have is homeless populations - they spend most of their time exclusively outside - and they still get sick: https://www.sfpublicpress.org/covid-19-cases-spike-among-hom...

So making some big claim about how outdoors transmission is impossible is kind of preposterous.

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Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses... by manquer on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @01:55PM (#27212049)
Even people from remote Amazon tribes in the jungle have got covid.

Also in warmer countries outdoor/indoor is not all that different ventilation wise. It is not like I am magically getting covid if I am standing just inside the door and am suddenly immune standing on the porch.

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