Derek Thompson, in an article published in the Atlantic (https://medium.com/the-atlantic/social-distancing-is-not-enough-5c56e9301304), had this to say:
COVID-19 has mounted a sustained attack on public life, especially indoor life. Many of the largest super-spreader events took place inside — at a church in South Korea, an auditorium in France, a conference in Massachusetts. The danger of the indoors is more than anecdotal. A Hong Kong paper awaiting peer review found that of 7,324 documented cases in China, only one outbreak occurred outside — during a conversation among several men in a small village. The risk of infection indoors is almost 19 times higher than in open-air environments, according to another study from researchers in Japan.
Appropriately, just about every public indoor space in America has been shut down or, in the case of essential businesses such as grocers, adapted for social-distancing restrictions. These closures have been economically ruinous, transforming large swaths of urban and suburban life into a morbid line of darkened windows.
After presenting relevant data and information, Thompson gave his acronym in fighting COVID-19: SAFE
Social distancing: This one you probably knew before you read this article. Keep a healthy distance between yourself and others — six feet is a good general rule — especially when you are near them for an extended period of time.
Airflow awareness: Every noncontact activity — talking, eating, working out — becomes significantly safer when you take it outside. As the previously mentioned Japanese study and Hong Kong survey indicated, the odds of transmission in a closed, indoor space are several orders of magnitude higher than in open-air environments.
Face masks: Wear them. They’re not just for you; they’re for everybody around you.
Expectoration: COVID-19 appears to spread both through large-droplet transmission, such as from sneezes, and through the airborne transmission of smaller, aerosolized droplets, such as those that spray out of the mouths of talkers. Beware especially of indoor environments and activities that naturally include lots of gabbing (such as a long office meeting), singing (such as a choir practice), shouting (such as a high-school gym), or heavy breathing (such as an intense indoor workout class).
If one believes in the advices of Thompson, he/she may now choose outdoors whenever possible. Therefore, in choosing venues for seminars, trainings and several activities; he/she now wisely prefers facilities that have open air function rooms, have enough spaces to allow physical distancing, have farms/gardens that offer refreshing views, offer immune-boasting foods and drinks, and employ disinfection and prevention techniques and methods.
In these times of uncertainty therefore, a discerning individual chooses Hygeia IntegraMeds Center at Patin-ay, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur to be the venue for trainings, seminars, and like activities.
Open Air Function Rooms
Hygeia IntegraMeds Center only has open air function rooms as it is its advocacy to promote systems that cut the use of electricity.
Enough Spaces To Allow Physical Distancing
Hygeia IntegraMeds Center has several buildings that could be used for discussions, allowing physical distancing among activity participants.
Farm/Garden That Offers Refreshing Views
Hygeia IntegraMeds Center is a Learning Site and Extension Service Provider of the Department of Agriculture – Agriculture Training Institute; it is also a Farm School offering NC II on Organic Agriculture Production. It is also a repository of medicinal herbs used by herbalists and healers. Hence, one expects to see an organic farm/garden while staying in the area.
Immune-Boasting Foods and Drinks
Hygeia IntegraMeds Center advocates for organic agriculture and promotes healthy lifestyle. Hence, it offers only healthy, hearty meals to its guests.
Disinfection and Prevention Techniques and Methods
Hygeia IntegraMeds Center takes extra efforts to ensure that the area is disinfected before it welcomes guests and visitors. It installs footbath and barriers, requires the wearing of face masks, among others in order to lessen – if not totally eliminate – the chance of COVID-19 infection in the area.
