Yeah the risk is right up there with being hit by a meteorite, little less than winning the lotto.
Not tag teaming Userq here... but I was gonna post the exact same thing lol. Probably a good idea while riding the bike with the life-vest next to the pond, to wear a meteor helmet too.
Right, just like you can get dust from a far away dusty ballpark blown into your eyes, even though dust is heavier than a virus; the virus can also be blown.
Pollen is blown over distances ... and is heavier than covid ... and affects people.
Somehow, you seem to believe that the virus is programmed to self destruct after traveling 6 feet.
No I don't think it self destructs, or at least I have no idea how long it lasts but that's not the point.
Pollen.... Pollen is actually a winged particle. For real. Mother nature I guess. So its designed to move around. Now, I have a pine tree at one end of my drive, granted its a big tree but when that thing does its little annual pollen bit in the early summer.... that one tree dusts the entire asphalt driveway and anything else around. One tree. I mean its everywhere. That one tree probably puts out more pollen grains than... I have no idea.
Covid is .125 μm, pine pollen is 6 µm... so 48X larger.
From the National Institute of Health:
Respiratory droplets can be of various sizes and are commonly classified as aerosols (made of droplets that are <5 μm) and droplets that are greater than 5 μm.
Although the fate of these droplets largely depends on environmental factors such as humidity, temperature, etc., in general, the larger droplets settle due to gravity and do not travel distances more than 1–2 m.
The use of physical barriers such as respiratory masks can be highly effective in mitigating this spread via respiratory droplets. Filtration of aerosols follows five basic mechanisms: gravity sedimentation, inertial impaction, interception, diffusion, and electrostatic attraction. For aerosols larger than ∼1 μm to 10 μm, the first two mechanisms play a role, where ballistic energy or gravity forces are the primary influence on the large exhaled droplets. As the aerosol size decreases, diffusion by Brownian motion and mechanical interception of particles by the filter fibers is a predominant mechanism in the 100 nm to 1 μm range. For nanometer-sized particles, which can easily slip between the openings in the network of filter fibers, electrostatic attraction predominates the removal of low mass particles which are attracted to and bind to the fibers. Electrostatic filters are generally most efficient at low velocities such as the velocity encountered by breathing through a face mask.