Schneider said he will hunker down in his room, heading out only to go to a nearby market for fresh water and food. When he leaves, he plans to wear a black cap with the logo of the Miami Heat basketball team, gloves and a thick cloth mask over his mouth and nose.
Going out is not hunkering down. He has to go out for water? Does that mean he doesn't have indoor plumbing, either? Did he not understand to buy more than one can of soup the last few times he's been out shopping? With everyone else buying real masks he didn't buy so much as a clue to get some himself? Geez. Guaranteed he'll take that cloth off his face and re-wrap it with the germy part on his mouth.
“Does that mean he doesn’t have indoor plumbing, either?”
Despite much of China now being first world (and cities like Wuhan certainly are, thanks to our Globalists), the water is still considered unsafe to drink throughout the country. Being that he likely never learned survival skills, or laughed it off when offered (like many here), he doesn’t realize that all he needs to do is boil his water, and most people, hotel rooms, etc. do have water boilers - or at least stoves.
In fact, on many of our travels, even to India, that’s what we do - boil tap water, and we’ve never gotten sick - the bugs cannot survive a nice boiling. One other option is bleach, but I’m not sure it’s as effective (but it is still good, if fresh), and you have to be sure that you have clean bleach (nothing else added, like fragrance). Of course you can do both, although we stopped at just boiling.