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In china, a lot the spread isn't from stranger to stranger but family to family: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-28/coronavirus-spread-in-china

by fyp 6y ago

In china, a lot the spread isn't from stranger to stranger but family to family: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-28/coronavirus-spread-in-china-mostly-among-families-report-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-28/coronavir... https://youtu.be/e3gCbkeARbY?t=37 https://youtu.be/e3gCbkeARbY?t=37 How do you do physical distancing within your home? Eat meals alone? Don't share cups/plates? Wear gloves for doorknobs? I feel like there's currently no solution for this.

xxpor 6y ago
You can't avoid a lot of that, given the physical constraints within a home. This just means it's even more critical for people who live with others to do physical distancing so they don't bring it home.
- cameldrv 6y ago
  Wuhan avoided it with a centralized quarantine. If you were positive, you weren't allowed to go back home and infect your family.
  - badfrog 6y ago
    Where did they go? Are there 80k hospital beds in Wuhan?
    - cameldrv 6y ago
      Football stadiums, convention centers, that sort of thing. They set up a bunch of cots and people laid there to recover. If you started to deteriorate, they sent you to an actual hospital. There's talk about doing this maybe with all of the empty hotel rooms in NY.
buboard 6y ago
That may well be the reason why the virus spread continued in italy and Spain, from parents to grandparents.
badfrog 6y ago
> How do you do physical distancing within your home? Eat meals alone? Don't share cups/plates? Wear gloves for doorknobs? I feel like there's currently no solution for this. I don't think you really need to. Say the average household size is 3. If everybody locks down just within their household, the maximum spread of infection is 3x the current level. If that's done early enough, things will be pretty much fine in terms of hospital capacity, etc. Though if somebody in your household is especially at risk, they may want to stay in a separate room for a few days until it's clear that everybody else is safe.
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  Treat the household itself as the security / hygiene perimeter.

by fyp 6y ago

xxpor 6y ago

You can't avoid a lot of that, given the physical constraints within a home. This just means it's even more critical for people who live with others to do physical distancing so they don't bring it home.

cameldrv 6y ago
Wuhan avoided it with a centralized quarantine. If you were positive, you weren't allowed to go back home and infect your family.
- badfrog 6y ago
  Where did they go? Are there 80k hospital beds in Wuhan?
  - cameldrv 6y ago
    Football stadiums, convention centers, that sort of thing. They set up a bunch of cots and people laid there to recover. If you started to deteriorate, they sent you to an actual hospital. There's talk about doing this maybe with all of the empty hotel rooms in NY.

buboard 6y ago

That may well be the reason why the virus spread continued in italy and Spain, from parents to grandparents.

badfrog 6y ago

> How do you do physical distancing within your home? Eat meals alone? Don't share cups/plates? Wear gloves for doorknobs? I feel like there's currently no solution for this. I don't think you really need to. Say the average household size is 3. If everybody locks down just within their household, the maximum spread of infection is 3x the current level. If that's done early enough, things will be pretty much fine in terms of hospital capacity, etc. Though if somebody in your household is especially at risk, they may want to stay in a separate room for a few days until it's clear that everybody else is safe.

dredmorbius 6y ago
Treat the household itself as the security / hygiene perimeter.