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> Why meat plants? The CDC said it’s hard for those workers to stay separated and wear masks on the job, and there are “sociocultural and economic challenges” w
by rv-de 6y ago
> Why meat plants? The CDC said it’s hard for those workers to stay separated and wear masks on the job, and there are “sociocultural and economic challenges” with a diverse, low-wage workforce, including language barriers and employees living in crowded settings and sharing rides to work.
"An important factor could also be the ambient temperature at the workplace. Cold temperatures prevailed in the rooms, some of which were the size of a hall. "I have been asking myself more and more whether these high transmission activities in slaughterhouses do not indicate something that we will otherwise experience over a large area in winter, namely this temperature effect. In other words: When it gets colder, the coronavirus will probably be better transmitted."
Prof. Drosten
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- oh-well-111 6y agoI was downvoted and criticized in a hilariously condescending manner for suggesting that warmer temperatures are slowing down the spread a couple for weeks ago. But it seems that the infinite lockdown proponents are getting a littler quieter now.
- atomi 6y agoMy theory is that it may not be the heat exactly, but the way in which heat rises that may cause the viral particles to disperse away from people.