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bucolic_frolic

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5. Sounds like social distancing is the best preventative

Reply to James48 (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 08:08 AM

May 2020

Open air, outdoors. These packing plants are indoors, packed sardine-style. Even if the air is changed by a circulating system, there's also the airborne offage from cutting, rinsing, packing. I'm no scientist but it sounds like the air in there is a petri dish without borders.

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