I also read the writers decided that realistically airborne spores would mean wearing gas masks all the time (not just underground like in the games), and they obviously couldn't have the actors cover their faces.
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It's honestly depends on how virulent the fungus is. In open air, the chances of you being exposed to sufficient spores to be successfully infected is low, hence why it's damp enclosed rooms in game that was problematic. The flip side is that the spores can grow in normally bad conditions.
The problem as always is how much biology you want to apply to this Vs how much you want to use the scientific method to extrapolate from game/show media. In reality, our immune systems work very well against fungal infections. Fungal infx happens in places like our skin where immune can't reach.
In game, incubation takes 2 days before the runner stage occurs. That's EXTREMELY rapid growth, including the brain which is very well protected against infections by several barriers. Hell, CDC claims diagnosis can be made within MINUTES after contracting the disease(presumably exposure by bite)
That kind of growth will suggest extremely high infectivity once it breaches your defences. The spores can contaminate walls and be dispersed from there... So any house, apartment, barn can be contaminated and a source of Contagion, slowly building up.
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