I think it’s tourists as much as workers. The Chinese middle class is much larger now than it was during previous virus outbreaks like SARS. During the last decade alone the middle class has boomed as wages have gone up in China. Those Chinese tourists were probably also a big part of the spread. Who wouldn’t like to visit Italy (back then, not now) Especially the northern part during ski season.
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100%. Not necessarily WDW a favorite place to vacation for Chinese, but the luxury vacation market and high end shopping in major worldwide tourism cities depends on many wealthy Chinese to spend their billions. In my business and leisure travels, I see in the past wealthy Chinese mainly in adult tour groups enjoying themselves. Las Vegas casinos surely miss their action at the tables.
I see they have both liquid and bar soap. My wife was just saying how at our store all the liquid hand soap was sold out but there were tons of bars of soap. As if people forgot that a bar of soap is still soap
No, it doesn't have to live in the air. In fact you can't really say that a virus is alive to begin with, it lacks DNA, it can't reproduce on its own, to reproduce it has to find a host... so in the classical definition of being alive it isn't. At best it is in a grey area of being alive and not alive.
The reason it has spread so quickly in Italy compared to the place like the UK probably has less to do with the number of infected people that travel to either country and more to do with the way Italian greet each other. A kiss on each cheek when you say hello is a recipe for disaster if you have a virus running rampant somewhere. The cheek kiss is also common in Iran... then look at countries like Japan where the greetings aren't even handshakes just a bow and the fact that they have a very low incidence of the virus and you start to see a pattern and why the virus has spread faster in some countries than it has in others. My guess if is you just took one infected person and dropped them in Italy, one infected in the UK and one infect in Japan that you would still end up the same place you are today because it really comes down to how people interact with each other on a daily basis as to how quickly this virus is going to really spread.
Are feminine products being horded?
Of course the average distance isn't as important as the maximum distance. Even if a sneeze only goes beyond the 40 meter limit one time it could still be the one time that infects you. Based on a study at MIT the maximum distance they found sneeze could travel was 200 feet or about 61 meters. So if you want to be really careful give yourself some extra room... or better yet to the idiot that isn't covering his face when he sneezes to use a tissue.
Well when one of those cashiers or baggers gets sick and dies the store is going to have to explain in court why they directed their employees to ignore reasonable safety precautions... and by the time it goes to trial the odds of them getting a jury that is void of anyone that knew of anyone that died or had serious complications from the virus will be pretty low. Clearly not the smartest way for a business to act unless they want to see themselves paying out serious sums of money to family of the deceased employee.
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Forty meters?? Color me dubious.
Yeah, obviously a test like this was conducted in a lab.
