So FYI if you understand plagues you will quickly realize why every modern plague comes out of China or Africa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
It's wort the time start to finish but the point I'm making starts at around the 4:50 mark
As for spreading infection dosr is right that it can live on surfaces for a long...long time. Some trials have shown it surviving for 3 days under ideal conditions on stainless steal.
What they are recommending is that if you do go outside and are in risky contact that you shed your outerwear outside of your house. Pretend it's like an airlock and you don't want to carry germs into your safe hidey-hole.
Perhaps this is what the doctor meant when he said to show your clothes the sun: to keep them OUTSIDE so you don't piggyback them in.
Otherwise masks are basically useless unless you have a high grade full face respirator. If you're sick use the masks to stop your germs from spreading but if you're not sick don't buy the masks to save them for medical professionals who NEED them due to constant contact throughout the day.
Proper ventilation when outside does wonders for cutting down the spread so yeah, you are probably safe playing pickleball HOWEVER it is very selfish to take that risk. Stay the
fruit inside. If you get sick that is another patient that has to be treated by already stressed medical systems and yet another point of infection where you and your loved ones' health is put into jeopardy.
You are risking your life, the lives of your close friends and family, and the medical workers that will have to treat you for what...because you can't take a couple weeks off from your social calendar?
Our family has our phones going all day with video chats with friends and family so we can socialize without putting anyone at risk.
We are in a crisis. Don't be an
asphole and become yet another statistic for the stupidity of humainty.
STAY THE FRUIT HOME!