{"id":151,"date":"2020-02-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/2020\/02\/20\/face-mask-while-walking-outside\/"},"modified":"2020-02-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T09:00:00","slug":"face-mask-while-walking-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/2020\/02\/20\/face-mask-while-walking-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Wear a Face Mask While Walking Outside?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The advice has changed more than once, which has left a lot of people covering their faces on empty footpaths and uncovering them in busy shops, precisely backwards.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the distance actually does<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outdoor transmission at distance is very low. Risk rises sharply with proximity, duration and enclosure, none of which describe a quiet walk with two metres of clearance.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sensible rule is contextual rather than binary: carry a covering, use it where you cannot keep distance, and do not treat the walk itself as the risk.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For anyone exercising hard, a damp covering restricts airflow enough to matter. That is a comfort argument rather than a safety one, but it is a real one.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts weigh in on whether covering your face during an outdoor walk is helpful, harmful, or simply unnecessary now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}