From a few individual case histories, diarrhea was one of the symptoms. It wasn’t mentioned in widely circulated lists of symptoms to watch for.
I suspect that contaminated surfaces were neglected early on with this one. Notice the masks worn in the East, but also notice the lack of hand washing training in many parts of the East. The virus will live up to about one hour on a clean, dry surface.
If the virus strikes and begins to take a noticeable toll here, retailers and others with heavy traffic need to have all surfaces cleaned with disinfectants continuously.
Restrooms in those establishments should be closed to the public (employees only). Otherwise, everyone including customers will be at very high risk of infection. Customers need to know what they’re purchasing before arriving. Employees should all be trained on how to properly wear gloves, properly take them off, proper disposal of gloves, hand washing, etc.
Employers should be prepared to give all employees who usually deal directly with customers leaves of absences, and be prepared to temporarily close businesses. Stock shelves overnight, and relegate all customers to self-checkouts.
You can post protected loss prevention (gloves, masks, long sleeves, hoods/hats, etc.) here and there to watch things, and loss prevention personnel won’t need to get very close to customers. Loss prevention can also watch doors. There won’t be much customer traffic during a big die-off anyway.
Everyone would be smarter to stock up on food and other necessities in advance and prepare for *2 months* at home without going out in built up areas or to gathering places at all. Maybe most of us can survive a first wave that way.
I sort of agree.
I was going all-in on preparing for this for a week, and am now sort of prepared.
My wife was sort of laughing at me, but is also letting me go, now I believe we can hole up for a month here, anyway, might look at two months now.
Gonna get sick of dried soup, but we have a small stove with a gas unit, for an emergency.
Do you have a source for that information? All I can find that it is unknown. Seems strange that it could be unknown unless they don't want us to know. I notice that most other viruses survive much longer than one hour on a clean, dry surface, too.