Here’s my letter to Governor Grisham about outdoor exercise. Pls feel free to copy any or all of it.
Dear Govenor Grisham:
I applaud your efforts to make decisions based in science, not politics, to help our community fight the spread of COVID-19. Therefore I fully support the requirement to wear face masks in public, including while exercising indoors. However, I don't believe the science we currently understand supports your new requirement to wear a mask while exercising OUTDOORS.
How did your administration come to the conclusion that it is safe to eat in an outdoor restaurant without a mask, next to other people, but not to run or ride your bike without a mask on our streets or bike trails? High-intensity cardio exercises like running or riding a bike with a mask are as difficult as eating with a mask on. A mask simply blocks too much air while exercising.
I’d like to suggest an alternative that is more evidence-based policy: require social distancing from any other person while exercising outdoors without a mask. Your administration has appropriately deemed some business “essential.“ As a former public health official, you understand that jogging, running and riding a bike are essential to one’s physical and mental health. I ask that you review your policy and reconsider outdoor exercise “essential” to enabling community health and allow it to be done without a mask but with more restrictive social distancing.
Respectfully,
Geoff Mather
On Jul 10, 2020, at 11:27 AM, hawke morgan via Bike-racers <bike-racers@mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
I do not think we can do the Crit ITT with masks.
If you disagree with the new maskless exercising ban I would encourage you to write Mrs Grisham.
Here is the link. https://www.governor.state.nm.us/contact-the-governor/
This is my letter:
Dear Govenor Grisham:
I am opposed to the ban on maskless exercising. This is just not rational. It is legal to eat out maskless on a patio and not legal to run or ride your bike maskless 200ft from any other human being. There is no way math or science makes that rational. A more rational mandate might be to keep 20ft from any other person while exercising maskless. Most of the time exercising outdoors I am much farther away from anyone, usually 200ft+. If you are going to exercise by jogging around Johnson Field at UNM, riding some crowed part of the bikepath, or going to a gym, I can see having to wear a mask, but not all outdoor exercise.
I am very supportive of being careful about the virus, and was one of the first people social distancing and wearing a mask in NM, probably 6 weeks before this was mandatory.
Thank you for your time.
Peter Hawke Morgan
Hawke Morgan
Round About Co.
(505) 259-6885
yourstruly@fastmail.com
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