Since the covid-19 crisis, there are a lot of normal activities we use to do without worry, not anymore. People are being more cautious and are paying more attention to where they go, what they do, and what they touch, along with all the safety precautions, cleaning, wearing a mask, and social distancing, to limit their risk of contracting this virus.
Well experts have created a list of 37 of the most likely places where you are more likely to catch the corona virus with risk levels for various activities.
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Opening The Mail
Risk Level: 1
Early on in the pandemic, people were concerned about contracting COVID-19 via opening mail or delivery boxes. However, according to doctors from the Texas Medical Association, there is a very low risk.
Getting Restaurant Takeout
Risk Level: 2
If there was ever a time to enjoy meals in the comfort of your own home, it is now. Delivery or takeout from a restaurant is a great way to not only support your local economy, but to keep yourself protected from the virus. According to the experts, the risk level is just 2.
Pumping Gasoline
Risk Level: 2
Pumping gas shouldn’t be a huge concern during the pandemic. Since gas pumps are outside and situated more than six feet apart, the risk level is just at a 2. However, make sure to still wear a mask and use sanitizer after touching the pump just to be safe.
Playing Tennis
Risk Level: 2
Going Camping
Risk Level: 2
Many of us are experiencing the travel bug, as we have spent the majority of 2020 on our home turf. If you feel the need to get out of town, experts maintain that camping is the safest way to do it. Why? You bring your own equipment and food, spend most of your time outdoors, and will likely keep exposure to others at a minimum.
Grocery Shopping
Risk Level: 3
Going to gather food is one of the more essential tasks in life, but is considered a moderate-low risk by experts. Why? Grocery shopping is conducted in an indoor environment shared by multiple people at once. Obviously, ordering your groceries online is a safer option. However, if you do choose to go to the store, make sure you are taking all precautionary measures.
Going for a Walk, Run, or Bike Ride With Others
Risk Level: 3
Exercising with friends, whether going for a walk, hike, run, or bike ride is considered a moderate-low risk. While you are outdoors, keep in mind that you have the potential to sweat—and if you are too close to others you may be at risk of spreading respiratory droplets.
Playing Golf
Risk Level: 3Staying at a Hotel for Two Nights
Risk Level: 4
Just how risky is checking into a hotel? While that entirely depends on the precautionary measure the establishment is taking, experts maintain it is a moderate-low risk with a 4/10 danger. To make sure you are minimizing exposure, do your research ahead of time and make sure the hotel is invested in mitigating exposure. Many hotels are offering virtual check-ins, have closed common spaces, and have extra diligent sanitation methods in place to ensure the health of their customers.
Sitting in a Doctor’s Waiting Room
Risk Level: 4Unless you have to sit in a doctor’s waiting room, you probably shouldn’t. According to experts, there is a moderate-low risk involved—which can vary drastically in regards to the type of doctor’s office you are sitting in. This is why many medical establishments are avoiding the waiting room altogether, asking patients to wait in their cars until their appointment time. Talk to your medical practitioner and find out what they are doing to protect patients from unnecessary exposure.
Going to a Library or Museum
Risk Level: 4While going to a library or museum isn’t the riskiest thing you can do, you might want to avoid these indoor spaces with common areas. They aren’t essential and they happen to be a moderate-low risk.
Eating in a Restaurant Outside
Risk Level: 4Aside from getting takeout, dining al fresco at a restaurant is your safest option. Just keep in mind that tables should be spaced 6-feet apart. Also, if you are dining with others who don’t live in the same home, you are now part of their bubble.
Walking in a Busy Downtown
Risk Level: 4
Even if you are wearing a mask, walking around in a busy downtown area is a moderate-low risk for the virus.
Spending an Hour at a Playground
Risk Level: 4The playground may seem like a safe place to bring your children, due to the fact that it is outdoors, but keep in mind that it is actually a moderate-low risk. With so many shared spaces, people from different places, and the difficulty in maintaining social distancing, your child—and therefore your entire network—may be exposed to the virus. Also, remember that children are often asymptomatic but can still spread the virus.
Having Dinner at Someone Else’s House
Risk Level: 5
Having dinner at someone else’s house jumps into the next risk level, moderate, according to experts who gave it a 5 out of 10 risk rating. Why? Not only is social distancing difficult, but consider all the shared surfaces and spaces—and the likelihood that you won’t be wearing a mask as you drink and dine.
Attending a Backyard Barbecue
Risk Level: 5
Grilling with friends and family may seem safe since it takes place outdoors, but experts maintain it is moderately risky. Again, it is difficult to stay six feet apart when you are dining and drinking with friends and family.
Going to a Beach
Risk Level: 5If you have seen all of the photos and videos of packed beaches around the country, it should come as zero surprise that spending a day at the beach is considered a moderately risky activity.
Shopping at a Mall
Risk Level: 5
Your local mall has reopened, but should you shop until you drop? Probably not. Due to the indoor nature of a shopping mall—including ventilation—they have been dubbed a moderate risk by experts.
Sending Kids to School, Camp, or Day Care
Risk Level: 6
Even more risky—with a 6 out of 10 risk factor—is sending children to school, camp, or day care. This is obviously a huge concern right now, as schools across the country are devising their educational strategy for the 2020-2021 academic year. While risk factors can vary by age group, the fact that children are often asymptomatic spreaders, there are many shared surfaces, and there is great difficulty in educating students while maintaining social distancing, all add up to a moderately risky situation.
Working a Week in an Office Building
Risk Level: 6
You should probably stay out of your office for the time being. According to experts, working a week in an office building is a moderately risky situation.
Swimming in a Public Pool
Risk Level: 6Public pools may be open in your area, but you are better off at the beach! Swimming in a pool with people who don’t live in your home is moderately risky according to experts.
Visiting an Elderly Relative or Friend in Their Home
Risk Level: 6
The final moderately risky activity? Visiting an older relative or friend in their home. Even though the risk factor is 6 out of 10, experts have been discouraging exposure to the higher risk population—elderly included—since the beginning of the pandemic.
Going to a Hair Salon or Barbershop
Risk Level: 7You might be dying to get your hair cut or colored, but the risk is moderately high, according to experts—even if both parties are wearing masks. A safer option is having someone come to your home to cut your hair, having them perform the service outdoors.
Eating in a Restaurant Inside
Risk Level: 7Due to the nature of airflow in restaurants, eating indoors is a moderately high coronavirus risk. Many popular restaurants have been tied to coronavirus outbreaks across the country. If you feel like dining out, try to make sure the establishment offers outdoor seating, which will reduce your risk.
Attending a Wedding or Funeral
Risk Level: 7
Weddings and funerals—both of which involve gatherings of large groups of people who don’t live together—pose a moderately high coronavirus risk, per experts.
Traveling by Plane
Risk Level: 7
To travel by airplane or not? Only you can decide, however, air travel poses a moderately high risk of exposure to the virus. Shared surfaces, close quarters, and being in the same space as so many other people from across the world are just a few of the ingredients that could pose an infection risk.
Playing Basketball
Risk Level: 7
Even if you are playing basketball outdoors, it involves a pretty big group of people and one main shared surface—the basketball. Early on in the pandemic, the virus made its way through the NBA, establishing the sport as moderately risky.
Playing Football
Risk Level: 7
Football, another group sport, is just as risky as basketball, according to the experts.
Hugging or Shaking Hands When Greeting a Friend
Risk Level: 7Early on in the pandemic, health experts discouraged hugging or shaking hands when greeting others as the virus can easily be spread this way. Luckily there are other ways to greet people that don’t involve direct contact.
Eating at a Buffet
Risk Level: 8Don’t even think about dining at a buffet anytime soon. Even before the coronavirus first surfaced in Wuhan, China, buffets were considered a health risk. So, it should come as zero surprise that during the pandemic, they are considered high risk.
Working out at a Gym
Risk Level: 8
While many people have returned back to their gym or health club, experts maintain that doing so puts you at a high risk, to the tune of an 8 out of 10 risk factor.
Going to an Amusement Park
Risk Level: 8
You might want to put off that trip to Disney World until next year. Experts maintain that amusement parks are high risk for coronavirus spread.
Going to a Movie Theater
Risk Level: 8
Going to the movie theater is one of America’s favorite pastimes. However, experts claim it is nearly impossible to avoid high risk exposure in theaters. This is mostly due to the smaller, confined spaces, airflow, and shared surfaces.
Attending a Large Music Concert
Risk Level: 9
The majority of music festivals, concerts, and other live performances have been canceled this summer—and for a good reason. Experts claim that attending a large music concert—where social distancing is virtually impossible—is one of the riskiest activities of all.
Going to a Sports Stadium
Risk Level: 9
Similar to attending a large music concert, attending a sporting event in a large stadium or arena, is a high risk activity with a 9 out of 10 risk rating. For this reason, most spectator sports are not allowing fans—even if the game must go on.
Attending a Religious Service With More Than 500 Worshipers
Risk Level: 9
Packed houses of worship with people from all over singing and loudly talking are a recipe for coronavirus disaster. Several large outbreaks of COVID-19 have been linked to religious gatherings, so it should come as zero surprise that worshiping in a large, group setting is incredibly risky.
Going to a Bar
Risk Level: 9
In recent weeks an overwhelming number of outbreaks have been linked to bars across the country. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious expert, recently warned that they are the worst place you can congregate during the pandemic. “Congregation at a bar inside is bad news,” he stated during a coronavirus press conference last week. “We really got to stop that. Right now.”
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