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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by Fjolsvith on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:01PM (#22983617)
> A prison is very much like a cruise ship from a viral perspective.

Prisons are much worse. Chow line with men almost heel to toe. Commissary line. Med line. Recycled air. Big crowds in small spaces.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by dotancohen on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:56PM (#22984269) 

    > Prisons are much worse. Chow line with men almost
    > heel to toe. Commissary line. Med line. Recycled
    > air. Big crowds in small spaces.
How could the prison be much worse than the cruise ship you just described?
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by Zhenya on Sunday April 26, 2020 @01:48AM (#22984849)
OP is describing a prison.
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by davidbanham on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:15AM (#22984971)
That's the joke.
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by Fjolsvith on Sunday April 26, 2020 @09:59PM (#22992217)
Stress.
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by djsumdog on Sunday April 26, 2020 @12:44AM (#22984506)
But in prisons you spend way more time isolated. There is less freedom of travel, and I'd assume they'd be less physical contact (although maybe more if you considered shared showers).
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by watwut on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:39AM (#22985067)
They share cells. They move around at set times. They are not isolated.

The soap is expensive, they don't have it and masks are not allowed.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by MauranKilom on Sunday April 26, 2020 @05:49AM (#22985919)
I am communicating daily with a prison inmate and they are required to wear masks all the time. But yes, that won't help due to all the other aspects of prison.
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by TylerE on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:15PM (#22983724)
That’s a cruise
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by Fjolsvith on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:23PM (#22984097)
I don't see them advertising it like that.
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by TylerE on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:37PM (#22984184)
The table settings might be nicer, but it's still a chowline of people asses-to-elbows.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B5D6CE/breakfast-buffet-served-onb...

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by strathmeyer on Sunday April 26, 2020 @12:47PM (#22988352)
I guess you guys will have to wait for your first time in jail to spot the differences, if you aren't going to learn from strangers on the Internet
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by ninkendo on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:12AM (#22986570)
We could make the same dumb jokes about:

Popular restaurants, clubs, sporting events, concerts, movie theaters, stores on Black Friday, etc etc etc.

(Personally, I’ve been on 5 different cruises and they’ve each been among the best vacations of my life. But lol lots of people so they must be just like prisons amirite?)

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by quickthrowman on Sunday April 26, 2020 @10:23AM (#22987349)
I don’t live at/in a restaurant, club, sporting event, concert, movie, or store for a week or more.

Perhaps you do. But if you don’t, none of those things are similar to a week-long cruise at all, since you are there for hours and not days.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by ninkendo on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:49PM (#22998702)
> I don’t live at/in a restaurant, club, sporting event, concert, movie, or store for a week or more.

I don't live asses-to-elbows in line with people for a full week on a cruise ship either. I have a room to myself. What point are you trying to make, exactly?

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by TylerE on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:36PM (#23000385)
The room is only for sleeping. Everything else is massive crowded common spaces
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by danieltillett on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:03PM (#22983991)
Apart from the demographics, they seem to me pretty similar ;)
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