Posted on 03/27/2020 12:54:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Josna Begum lives with her son in a house with four other families in a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, the world’s most densely populated city. “Distancing is impossible for us,” she said.
The 35-year-old, who occupies a single room with her 12-year-old son and earns $100 a month as a domestic worker, shares the single kitchen in the house with 22 other residents.
The Bangladeshi government this week ordered a nationwide shutdown to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus in a country considered at high risk because hundreds of thousands of overseas workers have returned home from Italy and other virus hot spots. All businesses were ordered closed except food markets, pharmacies and other essential services, and people were told to stay indoors and keep a safe distance from each other.
But in Dhaka, a city of more than 10 million where the average home is less than 120 square feet and a million people live in slums, that is easier said than done.
From Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro to Johannesburg the same story is playing out in some of the world’s most unequal regions, where tens of millions live in crowded slums without adequate water, sanitation and access to health care.
“The future of this pandemic to a greater extent will be determined by what happens in very large and densely populated countries,” Dr. Michael J. Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies program, said this week.
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How do you socially distance in a crowd?......just sneeze once................
PVC six foot hoop harness.
You can’t.
Next question.
Agenda 21 is unsustainable...
Put them 6 feet under
People who are simply visually weird to the point of being unattractive mastered having people want to give them space in a crowd ages ago.
“...shares the single kitchen in the house with 22 other residents.”
If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Hunan Flu Virus ever gets loose in this area, the death toll will be enormous.
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Because of the global trade paradigm and destruction of families over the past two generations, there are two or more generations living in many American houses, too.
Really three or more generations.
I’ll have plenty of social distance in about a month. I’m allergic to tree pollen. I sneeze a lot.
It’s easy. Close your eyes.
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