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And ban meeting rooms, boardroom-style tables, lunch rooms, etc.
by james_pm 6y ago
And ban meeting rooms, boardroom-style tables, lunch rooms, etc.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoLunch rooms! Don't get me started. My son got exposed in the lunch room at work. Masks and gloves everywhere in the plant, except of course that doesn't work in the lunch room.
- the-dude 6y agoFor the non-native speakers, what does 'exposed' mean in this sentence?
- tyingq 6y agoSince you can't wear gloves and masks when eating, the person was less protected, so...more "exposed".
- JoeAltmaier 6y ago...and spend time confined in there with a dozen other people at a time, breathing the same air and sitting at the same table.
- AuthorizedCust 6y agoAnd that was probably it. The language from credible authorities is typically that surface transmission is much less of a factor than breathing in what someone else just breathed out. E.g., "Transmission of coronavirus occurs much more commonly through respiratory droplets than through fomites." (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cleaning-disinfection.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...) Sorry for the weasel words, but there's so much the science isn't clear on that they remain necessary.
- rtx 6y agoIt might be more to do with eating.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoHis co-worker he was closely confined with (small plant; small lunch room) has tested positive and is hospitalized. The plant was closed, and some massive sterilization procedure underway. And of course my son the line Engineer was called in to help close the plant (stop all the machines since the operators were sent home; unload and purge the materials; pickle the storage and computer systems). So his exposure there was 100X everybody else's as he had to visit every machine and every place in the plant.
- itronitron 6y ago'potentially infected' (exposed to the virus)
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