They said the majority of the contract workers were Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi. I’m sure there would be a lot of shared accommodation and spending time together as a community. It would spread pretty fast amomgst them.
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Can’t imagine how it’d feel being part of a cluster. We had 1 person test positive in a building that has 5000 workers and people were freaking out what if they had contact with the individual. Can’t imagine half the workplace or more getting it.
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In every system we have layers of safety.
Each layer of safety has a hole in it.
It’s only when these holes line up do accidents or incidents occur.
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Do all 5000 of you eat together in a small space?
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I think for the majority of us, this will be the norm.
Whilst there will be a lot of fear, the way this virus can spread (which we’re all worried about surfaces we touch, etc.) versus how people are more likely to get the virus (face to face talking) is what needs more educating on.
Yes, everything has a risk associated to it. It’s important that everyone is aware of the risk, how to minimise it and what to do when something goes wrong.
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Don’t tell me, you have been watching Air Crash Investigations.
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Yeah, it’s getting ridiculous. People are totally slacking off. I had to tell someone to back away yesterday.
Ha. The concept was actually introduced to me by the Safety officer at BHP in the late 90s. I have seen it on AirCrash investigation though.
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Genuine question I see. To provoke genuine discussion.
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Sounds like the tax office.
Daily Update :
There are no new entrants to the competition today.
Joining the “Over 100” club today is Uganda. Just the 2 new cases are sufficient to reach the magical 3 figures. No losses at this stage for Uganda, long may that continue.
There are no new members of the “Millennial” club today.
At the top of the leaderboard and today and there are no positional changes. Iran today get into 6 figures, which means entry into the top 10 will now require more than 100000 cases. The UK surpass 30000 losses. Germany now has 0.2% of its population participating.
The winner of the “Most Non-Improved” award today is Brazil. Their previous best number of new cases in a 24 hour period was 7119 cases. While impressive, it pales in comparison to the 11,896 new cases they put up today. Only USA (regularly), France (once when changing reporting rules) and China (once when changing reporting rules) have beaten that mark. That is a 10% momentum build. Their continued rise up the ladder appears effortless. They have only tested 0.15% of their population, which is the lowest in the top 10 by some margin. Iran are next with 0.6%. USA, who were criticised early for low testing numbers, are now up to 2.4% Brazil are finding a positive case every 2.7 tests conducted, which is about half of what the USA have been needing to do to find their positive cases. Brazil may be the best place in the world to contract Rona at present.
For what it is worth, Tajikistan continues to rise. Another 86 new cases today for 29% momentum. The baby of the comp is already up to 126th spot.
@Heptides was kind enough to ask if all countries have been accounted for. I have 12 nations on my list that we are waiting to hear from. In Micronesia we await the islands of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru and Palau. In Polynesia there is Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu. In Melanesia and Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands are Rona free. There are a few nations who are unlikely to be Rona free, and more likely to have not joined for other reasons. These nations are Lesotho in Africa, and Turkmenistan in Asia. We must also not forget, from the region of “you lying bastards”, the nation of North Korea.
We look to our sister state in the US. Delaware put 407 new cases on the board today, for a total of 5778. They rise back up to 33rd spot moving ahead of Nevada and Utah. Their HaPP-IE rises today by 240 to 3577. Their number that matters is now 193.
Australia put 26 new cases on the board again today. We maintain 49th place. Our HaPP-IE not-an-index has fallen by 70 today and we are now down to 794. We haven’t been in the 700s since March 22nd. It’s taking a hell of a lot longer to go down than it did to go up. We are now closer to beers at the pub than Senegal are. Our number that matters is now 97.
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You do realise that food goes into the stomach, not the respiratory system, right? So consuming the virus does nothing. The only way it passes from meat to you is if it was on the outside of the meat, you handled the raw meat, and then put your hands around your nose before washing them.
I would hope you’re always washing your hands after touching raw meat anyway.
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Ok thats for that. So you are saying if its eaten its OK?
So if all the workers at Cedar Meats eat together is that in a cafeteria? If that is so, then would it likely be similar to a cruise ship where one of the people serving the food is a super spreader?
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The danger wouldn’t be that the virus is on the meat, it would be on the packaging.
yawn.
Better than just provoking.
I would like some proof of that relative to SARS-COV-2. . Sure, nothing could survive the hostile hydrochloric acid environment in the human stomach , right? Wrong. Helicobacter pylori lives down there and can cause trouble and bacteria survive some of the most hostile environments on earth, for instance in volcanic fissures, on the sea floor, but thats just bacteria, viruses can also survive in in the stomach.
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stupid yanks. A couple of days ago they were cherry-picking stats to show how there were supposedly getting on top of it. Now last 2 days have both been well over 2000 deaths again.
New York with 752.
They also revised up their predicted deaths a few days ago to between 60k and 100k and they’re already basically at 75k. There is not a chance in the world their official number comes in under 100k. It’s laughable how much bullshit comes out of that place
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Not to mention that diarrhoea is actaully a symptom of Covid-19 and for other Coronavirus including SARS cell differentiation and ACE2 receptors in the gut were primary areas for infection.