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HumblePi

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This video shows how it only takes one momentary lapse of judgment can infect many people in seconds. The video was simulated with participants in Japan. One of the participants rubbed their hands with a special fluorescent liquid, only visible under black light. He was simulating an infected person who coughed into his hand.

Nine others join him at the buffet table. And sit to have dinner together. This would be similar to a cruise ship buffet or any restaurant buffet. After they eat, the room is darkened and.....well, you'll see what happens next.




I think the video makes it pretty clear how easily Covid19 can infect so many other people. In other situations, an infected person that sneezes into their hand then uses the handrail on an escalator or stairs, opens the door to an office or a doorknob is leaving the virus there for anyone to pick up on their hands. This is why hand washing, avoiding dining in restaurants (your server may be infected) and social distancing is so vital.
 
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HumblePi said:
This video shows how it only takes one momentary lapse of judgment can infect many people in seconds. The video was simulated with participants in Japan. One of the participants rubbed their hands with a special fluorescent liquid, only visible under black light. He was simulating an infected person who coughed into his hand.

Nine others join him at the buffet table. And sit to have dinner together. This would be similar to a cruise ship buffet or any restaurant buffet. After they eat, the room is darkened and.....well, you'll see what happens next.




I think the video makes it pretty clear how easily Covid19 can infect so many other people. In other situations, an infected person that sneezes into their hand then uses the handrail on an escalator or stairs, opens the door to an office or a doorknob is leaving the virus there for anyone to pick up on their hands. This is why hand washing, avoiding dining in restaurants (your server may be infected) and social distancing is so vital.
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And why you shouldn't touch your face where it can be taken in through your mouth, even your nose, but mostly your eyes. You pick it up on your hand, because that's what you use to touch practically everything with. But the virus can stay on your hand and not enter your body until you touch your nose, mouth, eyes.
 
HumblePi said:
This video shows how it only takes one momentary lapse of judgment can infect many people in seconds. The video was simulated with participants in Japan. One of the participants rubbed their hands with a special fluorescent liquid, only visible under black light. He was simulating an infected person who coughed into his hand.

Nine others join him at the buffet table. And sit to have dinner together. This would be similar to a cruise ship buffet or any restaurant buffet. After they eat, the room is darkened and.....well, you'll see what happens next.




I think the video makes it pretty clear how easily Covid19 can infect so many other people. In other situations, an infected person that sneezes into their hand then uses the handrail on an escalator or stairs, opens the door to an office or a doorknob is leaving the virus there for anyone to pick up on their hands. This is why hand washing, avoiding dining in restaurants (your server may be infected) and social distancing is so vital.
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You best not leave your house, then.
 
This is what makes us immune to these things. If you live in a bubble your whole life a simple cold will take you out.
 
There was a researcher, before my time, who was tasked with figuring out why a rural village had so many cases of cancer and other illness. They kept their pesticide outside and only the men used it. So why were women and children getting cancer? This researcher, a regular dude, did something genius. He and his team added florescent liquid to the pesticide. When they employed black light to see what was happening, they found pesticide in the home, in the bed, in the kitchen and on the food. While the village had been careful to isolate the pesticide to a single household member, they had not considered that individual carrying the pesticide into the house as a residual. The village could see, for the first time, what was happening. The village adopted procedure to avoid applicators spilling the pesticide on themselves. The village adopted procedure to sanitize the applicator before he entered the home area let alone the house. Children stopped dying of cancer.

That guy worked in Nairobi during one of my visits to Kenya. I went to the institution he was working with and talked with him about his stroke of genius.
 
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AlphaOmega said:
This is what makes us immune to these things. If you live in a bubble your whole life a simple cold will take you out.
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I think the message is that it's too soon to eat at a buffet.
 
nota bene said:
No. It's too easy to guess.
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Was your guess an old lady with a serious case of nasal drip leaning over the soup to see what kind it was? and did it include the guy after her not noticing it and ladling himself out some yummy?

That was the last buffet for me. Im sure Ive eaten the same..we all have..but that visual...I can still see it as clear as day. Poor thing didn't even know it was leaking.
 
One of the reasons I do NOT eat from the peanut or pretzel bowls found in some pubs on the bar top…how many folks do you really think wash thier hands after using the bathrooms in bars?
 
All the buffet restaurants in my community have shields. Of course, this doesn't stop little kids from sticking their disgusting little hands into the shredded cheese at the salad bar.

But I've been observing sensible protocols since 2005. I cannot even imagine touching a menu or a shared ladle or spoon without using an antibacterial wipe afterward.
 
AlphaOmega said:
Was your guess an old lady with a serious case of nasal drip leaning over the soup to see what kind it was? and did it include the guy after her not noticing it and ladling himself out some yummy?

That was the last buffet for me. Im sure Ive eaten the same..we all have..but that visual...I can still see it as clear as day. Poor thing didn't even know it was leaking.
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Many years ago my father-in-law took us out to eat and drove to a buffet restaurant. After pulling into the parking lot I opened the door and stepped out to see a good half gallon of puke on the ground. Obviously someone made

certain to get their money's worth at the buffet but unfortunately the long walk out to the parking lot caused the over filled belly to spat up.


Once inside we got our plates and did that cattle drive down the troughs. I am watching a guy ahead of us who is on his return trip through the cattle drive. He still chewing on food from his first drive and I can see crumbs coming out of his fat ass mouth.

Buffets have to be one of the most depressing places in the world. Maybe only second to people sitting at the gambling machines in a casino.

Not to wonder off the topic but ever watch a casino tv commercial with good looking people smiling and laughing and then go see the real people sitting at the machines?
 
nota bene said:
I think the message is that it's too soon to eat at a buffet.
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I'm not a person who has much concern about germs and the fact is I've been sick (and I mean SICK) once in the past 10 years, aside from your basic low level cold. I love buffets and was frequenting them a few times a month before all this. But at this point, when they reopen I won't be rushing back, or even rushing anywhere for awhile yet. Although I have no doubt I will eventually be back grabbing up my favorites. :shrug:
 
nota bene said:
All the buffet restaurants in my community have shields. Of course, this doesn't stop little kids from sticking their disgusting little hands into the shredded cheese at the salad bar.

But I've been observing sensible protocols since 2005. I cannot even imagine touching a menu or a shared ladle or spoon without using an antibacterial wipe afterward.
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Thats when mom and dad need to be publicly shamed for failing to control thier "little darlings"; I did it once at an Old Country Buffett in Minnesota....It was ugly, and I never went back, but mom and dad knew everyone eating in that Buffett was giving them the stink eye for failing to control the 2 terrors they let run all over the place.....I wonder of they ever went back.
 
Crosscheck said:
Many years ago my father-in-law took us out to eat and drove to a buffet restaurant. After pulling into the parking lot I opened the door and stepped out to see a good half gallon of puke on the ground. Obviously someone made

certain to get their money's worth at the buffet but unfortunately the long walk out to the parking lot caused the over filled belly to spat up.


Once inside we got our plates and did that cattle drive down the troughs. I am watching a guy ahead of us who is on his return trip through the cattle drive. He still chewing on food from his first drive and I can see crumbs coming out of his fat ass mouth.

Buffets have to be one of the most depressing places in the world. Maybe only second to people sitting at the gambling machines in a casino.

Not to wonder off the topic but ever watch a casino tv commercial with good looking people smiling and laughing and then go see the real people sitting at the machines?
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Hahaha exactly.
 
AlphaOmega said:
Was your guess an old lady with a serious case of nasal drip leaning over the soup to see what kind it was? and did it include the guy after her not noticing it and ladling himself out some yummy?

That was the last buffet for me. Im sure Ive eaten the same..we all have..but that visual...I can still see it as clear as day. Poor thing didn't even know it was leaking.
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Damn. I'm convinced. Of course, most of us are aware of these disgusting things but put them elsewhere in the mind. Your post slapped the back of my head into reality. I translated your post to: "Excuse me sir, would you like nasal drip with your soup?"
I seldom go to buffets anyway but never-ever is the operative word from now on. :)
 
HIP56948 said:
Damn. I'm convinced. Of course, most of us are aware of these disgusting things but put them elsewhere in the mind. Your post slapped the back of my head into reality. I translated your post to: "Excuse me sir, would you like nasal drip with your soup?"
I seldom go to buffets anyway but never-ever is the operative word from now on. :)
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lol..it wasnt just a drop either it hit the soup before disconnecting from the nose.
 
HumblePi said:
This video shows how it only takes one momentary lapse of judgment can infect many people in seconds. The video was simulated with participants in Japan. One of the participants rubbed their hands with a special fluorescent liquid, only visible under black light. He was simulating an infected person who coughed into his hand.

Nine others join him at the buffet table. And sit to have dinner together. This would be similar to a cruise ship buffet or any restaurant buffet. After they eat, the room is darkened and.....well, you'll see what happens next.




I think the video makes it pretty clear how easily Covid19 can infect so many other people. In other situations, an infected person that sneezes into their hand then uses the handrail on an escalator or stairs, opens the door to an office or a doorknob is leaving the virus there for anyone to pick up on their hands. This is why hand washing, avoiding dining in restaurants (your server may be infected) and social distancing is so vital.
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This is pure fear porn
 
ecofarm said:
There was a researcher, before my time, who was tasked with figuring out why a rural village had so many cases of cancer and other illness. They kept their pesticide outside and only the men used it. So why were women and children getting cancer? This researcher, a regular dude, did something genius. He and his team added florescent liquid to the pesticide. When they employed black light to see what was happening, they found pesticide in the home, in the bed, in the kitchen and on the food. While the village had been careful to isolate the pesticide to a single household member, they had not considered that individual carrying the pesticide into the house as a residual. The village could see, for the first time, what was happening. The village adopted procedure to avoid applicators spilling the pesticide on themselves. The village adopted procedure to sanitize the applicator before he entered the home area let alone the house. Children stopped dying of cancer.

That guy worked in Nairobi during one of my visits to Kenya. I went to the institution he was working with and talked with him about his stroke of genius.
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That's how family members and others not working around asbestos developed mesothelioma.
 
GhostlyJoe said:
This is pure fear porn
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Trumpers hate educational videos. Take it easy, it's not like it's a class at a university and thus truly worthy of your ire.
 
Crosscheck said:
Buffets have to be one of the most depressing places in the world. Maybe only second to people sitting at the gambling machines in a casino.

Not to wonder off the topic but ever watch a casino tv commercial with good looking people smiling and laughing and then go see the real people sitting at the machines?
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I guess it depends on the casino, and what time, but I do remember a time when my wife was giving a talk at a resort in New Mexico, and I didn't have anything to do for a few hours, so wandered over to the casino area to get something to eat, maybe put a few dollars in the slots. Anyway, this was during the day and it was the saddest group of people in one place I've ever seen. Honestly I had to leave. But the few times I've been to Las Vegas weren't nearly so depressing. Lots of those people appeared to be having a good time, especially at the craps table.
 
"Evil tricksters try to show how germs spread, and raise awareness. Evil tricksters trying to destroy America. Evil tricksters know germs spread by God to Trump haters. With God, with Trump, no germs. Video bad."

A couple of those in every village.
 
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