Posted on 05/27/2020 5:24:46 AM PDT by Hojczyk
In April, Hendrik Streeck, a virologist at the University of Bonn, determined that it was highly unlikely that shoppers would contract the virus when buying groceries. He told media at the beginning of last month that, through a survey of the disease's spread in Germany, he found "no significant risk of catching the disease when you go shopping."
"Severe outbreaks of the infection were always a result of people being closer together over a longer period of time," he said, remarking that in the outbreaks he studied, "infection didn’t come from supermarkets or butchers or restaurants. It came from long periods together in closed spaces."
Streeck's findings dovetail with those of several scientists out of Hong Kong and China, who said in a study early last month that out of 318 outbreaks they surveyed, just seven, or just above 2%, came from supermarkets or shopping malls (the researchers grouped the two in together, meaning the actual percentage of supermarket-based outbreaks is likely lower).
Another part of the explanation may lie in the mechanics of the virus itself: In the Chinese and Hong Kong study, nearly four out of every five outbreaks surveyed were associated with home spread, suggesting a high likelihood of infection in closed spaces. Supermarkets, which are generally very large and equipped with heavy-duty air circulation and filtration systems, may simply be unlikely to harbor enough of the virus to pose a threat to most consumers or workers.
New data on the virus, of course, is always coming to light, and the risk associated with grocery stores may rise as the pandemic continues. As of now, however, the evidence suggests that people can shop for groceries with relatively little worry about catching the coronavirus — good news for supermarkets, and for the people who shop, work in and
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So the locked down caused more deaths because people were in close quarters all the time..????
Of course!
... but churches are.
Cuomo was so surprised. Just like he was surprised about the deaths in the nursing homes. Not much different than sending them to the gas chamber.
Wait....wut?
Yesterday they said the opposite.
Grocery shopping okay, yet voting at the polls, while socially distancing, bad.
Only in Nancy’s upside down world, does the virus NOT exist in grocery stores...and, big box stores, but it does exist everywhere else.
The whole thing is BS.
I’ve traveled almost 6,000 miles in the last month, via multiple airports.
Had a routine doctor’s appt today with the masks, temp checks and all the rest. By the time the doc rolled in the exam room I told him that the train of crazy was leaving and I didn’t get a ticket. He laughed and said “I know” and I had already taken my mask off.
You can send this chart to your lib friends:
https://twitter.com/kylamb8/status/1264995238260637702
...data suggests...
Winners here. /s
I’ve worn a mask exactly 2 times since this mess started and that was because I had to, to get into where I went. And I don’t plan to wear one either unless forced to. I’ve been everywhere and on multiple occasions, home depot, Lowes, walmart, restaurants, the mall....
Common sense is enough IMO. Unfortunately common sense ain’t so common anymore.
Germany and Hong Kong china scientists agree....wait a minute....And we trust these sources? What are we, slow learners?
Common sense:
Very high odds of catching the virus from someone infected in your house then shopping in a grocery store. If a household has no one infected and no one goes shopping, the odds are very low.
If someone goes shopping then the odds of a household getting infected goes up. The odds are even higher if that person who goes shopping does not take steps for protection (mask and wash hands).
“So I guess the governors who want to open up shopping malls, department stores, and other businesses are correct.”
“Oh, no. We did not mean for you to take it THAT way.”
“data suggests”
Right up there with “unnamed sources”
Citing unnamed sources should get any media that states it charged with an automatic 5 year jail sentence IMO
This is such a charlie foxtrot...
The irony here is that academia still teaches the avoidance of using ‘unnamed sources’ in Journalism 101 classes. LMAO.
As I understand it, when cnn hires a teleprompter reader the contract states you must use that phrase at least 3 times a week to retain employment.
;^)
YAWN, tomorrow, the “news” will be the opposite.
Is it catchable on surfaces and countertops again today?
Yes. Like FAMILIES in lock-down, which as it turns out is the primary way most have caught it.
Most doctors today work for one of the big hospital chains, health service chains.... or some similar organization.
They do not make policy decisions. They get instructions from headquarters and are required to follow those instructions.
I am not a doctor, just a pain in the ass who has needled quite a few of them until they admitted the truth.
My belief is that the orders from above come from top management determined to get all of the government money they can, thus another example of how money from DC corrupts everything with which it is connected.
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