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It's really not and is quite common. You keep the site out a ways have workers show up and then bus them out to the site. You only have to keep the site where y

It's really not and is quite common. You keep the site out a ways have workers show up and then bus them out to the site. You only have to keep the site where you are doing the work way out there and so people can do their regular non lab related work closer to home. It's a really common practice. I live near a national nuclear research lab and they do that. I also grew up near an ICBM building and designing facility and when they needed to run tests they drive several hours out to the west desert to do things just to be safe. It's not that uncommon or inconvenient, and makes a hell of a lot more sense then just slapping it in the middle of a major metro area. Seriously we've got tons of land out west that is about a million miles from everything let's use some of that.

giantg2 4y ago
One difference is the bussing may need to be combined with a quarantine period which wouldn't be necessary with nuclear or chemical research.
- buscoquadnary 4y ago
  Would it though? I mean, I am assuming there aren't quarantine procedures right now. You'd just have to make sure you have appropriate disinfectant/decontamination guidelines. Heck just require decontamination as you leave the lab and as you get off the bus, two times makes it more safe, and I'd imagine a 40 minute bus ride through the sweltering west desert heat in direct isn't an environment that microorganisms my flourish in. Plus that's easy to do to if there is a quarantine period, out people on shifts of 5-7 days on site, one week off. That's what they do for the oil rigs, plenty of people live like that, it isn't easy, or cheap for the company but a global pandemic that locked down countries shattered supply chains and wreaked havoc with the global economy was a hell of a lot more expensive.
  - giantg2 4y ago
    "Plus that's easy to do to if there is a quarantine period, out people on shifts of 5-7 days on site, one week off." Exactly. "have appropriate disinfectant/decontamination guidelines." Yeah... it seems there have been some issues with people consistently following them. At least with the quarantine you have some defense in depth in case the procedures in the lab failed. (I think a woman in Fance died doing prion research. Why? Because she violated multiple protocols. I want to say she didn't even report it at first, but I could be wrong. And this isnt even a true infectious disease)
  - treis 4y ago
    It's not like a monkey coughs out the window and we get a pandemic. The spread is to the workers in the lab and then to the general public. The location of the lab doesn't really matter if the workers still live in cities.

giantg2 4y ago

One difference is the bussing may need to be combined with a quarantine period which wouldn't be necessary with nuclear or chemical research.

buscoquadnary 4y ago
Would it though? I mean, I am assuming there aren't quarantine procedures right now. You'd just have to make sure you have appropriate disinfectant/decontamination guidelines. Heck just require decontamination as you leave the lab and as you get off the bus, two times makes it more safe, and I'd imagine a 40 minute bus ride through the sweltering west desert heat in direct isn't an environment that microorganisms my flourish in. Plus that's easy to do to if there is a quarantine period, out people on shifts of 5-7 days on site, one week off. That's what they do for the oil rigs, plenty of people live like that, it isn't easy, or cheap for the company but a global pandemic that locked down countries shattered supply chains and wreaked havoc with the global economy was a hell of a lot more expensive.
- giantg2 4y ago
  "Plus that's easy to do to if there is a quarantine period, out people on shifts of 5-7 days on site, one week off." Exactly. "have appropriate disinfectant/decontamination guidelines." Yeah... it seems there have been some issues with people consistently following them. At least with the quarantine you have some defense in depth in case the procedures in the lab failed. (I think a woman in Fance died doing prion research. Why? Because she violated multiple protocols. I want to say she didn't even report it at first, but I could be wrong. And this isnt even a true infectious disease)
- treis 4y ago
  It's not like a monkey coughs out the window and we get a pandemic. The spread is to the workers in the lab and then to the general public. The location of the lab doesn't really matter if the workers still live in cities.