Disinfecting Wuhan.

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Color me skeptical.

It almost seems like Disinfectant Theater, rather like the TSA is Security Theater. On the surface it looks good, but in reality is only a bit better than useless.

[applegrove]

2. I worked at the airport and they are serious about safety. That was in Montreal. They

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had access to the most recent intelligence a week before it hit the news. I had to go through security every day. I had a weird key chain made out of the long end of a silver spoon, with no spoon, and they would push the newbies to check the scan of the contents of my huge purse and they almost always caught the discrepancy.

[dalton99a]

3. They should focus on hospitals and wet markets

Better yet, outlaw the wet markets altogether

[applegrove]

4. Is a wet market live animals?

[dalton99a]

5. Live and dead.

Sanitation is unregulated. They just hose things down with a garden hose. I believe the Chinese government will crack down on these places with an iron fist.

[applegrove]

6. Maybe they will go to slaughterhouses instead of markets. Was in paris

25 years ago and they had live animal markets right down the street from the Louvre. Much smaller numbers though. With the growing wealth and thus protein-meat eating in China they need to do something. There is just so much chance for pathogens to transfer to humans.