More than 99 percent of the Earth’s surface is a COVID-safe zone. Even in your own backyard the virus will struggle mightily to infect anyone—it has no meaningful impact unless you caught it before you walked out. In the park, on the balcony, at the beach, we are—at least for now—immune. The dependence of the virus on enclosed spaces also means that, had humanity agreed to avoid these vectoring environments for a few weeks, the pandemic could have been quickly brought to a halt.
