Posted on 03/01/2020 6:26:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS - - The spreading coronavirus epidemic shut down France’s Louvre Museum on Sunday, with workers who guard its trove of artworks fearful of being contaminated by the museum’s flow of visitors from around the world.
“We are very worried because we have visitors from everywhere,” said Andre Sacristin, a Louvre employee and union representative for its staffers.
“The risk is very, very, very great,” he said in a phone interview. While there are no known virus infections among the museum’s 2,300 workers, “it’s only a question of time,” he said.
A short statement from the Louvre said a staff meeting about virus prevention efforts stopped the museum from opening as scheduled Sunday morning. Would-be visitors were still waiting to get inside on Sunday afternoon.
The shutdown followed a government decision Saturday to ban indoor public gatherings of more than 5,000 people.
Sacristin said that new measure exacerbated the fears of Louvre workers that they might be in danger of contamination, because the museum welcomes tens of thousands of visitors each day. Also worrying staffers is that museum workers from northern Italy are now visiting the Louvre. They have come to collect works by Leonardo da Vinci that were loaned for a major exhibition, he said.
A meeting about virus prevention is scheduled for Monday between union representatives and the museum management, said Sacristin, who will be taking part.
He said museum visitors should be subjected to health checks to protect staffers and that if cases of coronavirus contamination are confirmed “then the museum should be closed.”
Workers have asked for masks to be distributed but so far have been given only an alcohol-based solution to disinfect their hands, he said.
“That didn’t please us at all,” he said.
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Last night I saw on TV.
The Mona Lisa smiled with her mouth closed because she had bad teeth
We should shut down everything and move underground.
I think I saw this in some movie.
We made need Bruce Willis.
I think it’s time to go to a Trump rally!
There goes my afternoon plans
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From what i’ve read:
1.) NO fabric MASK will stop the corona virus; it’s too small. Noit even the N95 or any of these fakes being sold ionline for $49-$150
2.) the corona virus is no worse than regular flu
3.) you are watching a world-wide black op’ unfold
A.) shut down China?
B.) shut down Trump/USA?
C.) take over the world....
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Will somebody please paint a mask on Mona Lisa...It would be a shame if she died...She’s very old and from area of Italy that is exploding with the Chinese Flu
I don’t see why not!
I’m not going to be made to live in fear by the lunatic Left.
Come kill me, COVID, otherwise shove off.
LOL! Hadn't heard that. I didn't know she was a Brit. Obamacare would've solved that. If you like your teeth, you can keep your teeth President Washington.
D’Orsay is better.
Not when they ship ALL of their Renoirs to Japan; and really not ever.
ML/NJ
No room underground, the Morlocks beat us to it.
Mayor Pete was the model for the Mona Lisa?
Alright, we’re moving those guys out. They’re either going to have to go deeper or up.
Another anti-Trump doomer zone, according to some here...
When I went to Paris a couple years ago, the room in which they display the Mona Lisa was a big writhing mob of utterly rude Chinese tourists practically climbing over each other like World War Z zombies. I’m not exaggerating. It was disgraceful, so I took a glance over their heads, then moved on to the many other interesting things there. But I can see why they’d close it down. That situation alone would be an absolute epicenter for virus spread.
Saw the very same thing. Hard to get close enough but I really enjoyed many of the other exhibits. “Wreck of the Medusa” being truly far more enigmatic for me.
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