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Re:Getting Back to Work by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Sunday May 10, 2020 @08:59AM (#23132269)
As always, the devil is in the details. I'd imagine a heavily automated car factory is actually one of the safer places to work, compared to (say) a hog slaughterhouse or a massage parlor.

In a sane world, we'd let workers choose between going to work and staying home without undue penalties either way, but that's not going to happen in 'Murica.

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Re:Getting Back to Work by rasengan on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:33AM (#23132442)
The problem is that coronavirus lives for days [1] on various surfaces. Is Elon Musk going to be on the factory floor everyday too?

Additionally, social distancing doesn’t work [2] and is a suggestion being made by non medical professionals to non medical students.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-s...

[2] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200414/cdc-covid-19-can-sp...

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Re:Getting Back to Work by travisporter on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:40AM (#23132490)
Your second link is an interesting read. Even though the virus was found on the floor and >6 ft away in a Chinese hospital, fortunately no staff were infected. I am not a scientist but I think they just tested for viral fragments versus active infectable viral particles. It’s reassuring but caution is still warranted.
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Re:Getting Back to Work by koheripbal on Sunday May 10, 2020 @11:18AM (#23133271)
Moreover comparing a HOSPITAL with a factory is ludicrous as the viral loads are orders of magnitude different.
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Re:Getting Back to Work by rasengan on Sunday May 10, 2020 @12:18PM (#23133762)
Do you have scientific evidence of this?
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