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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday May 23 2020, @08:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the like-a-Jackson-Pollock-painting dept.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/13/health/japan-black-light-experiment-coronavirus-trnd-wellness/index.html

The video shows 10 people coming into the restaurant, with one singled out as an "infected" person. A fluorescent substance only visible under black light is applied onto that person's hands, representing germs from a cough or a sneeze. Each participant then goes about the buffet as they normally would, not considering a potential contamination.

At the end of the video, the participants are cast under black lights illuminating where the "infection" has spread.

The substance, used to signify the germs, can be seen on food, serving utensils and platters, and even on the faces of some of the participants.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @09:29AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @09:29AM (#998109)

    Aye, everything spreads that way in a restaurant; fecal matter, name-your-own-nightmare..

    Ditto wrt fast-food/takeaway kitchens...
    Ditto wrt shops...
    Ditto wrt your home...
    Ditto wrt almost everywhere...

    Not one mention of time vs %viable on surfaces, no mention of how probable transmission by touching contaminated surfaces is , no modelling of the 'miasma' caused by viral shedding in the enclosed space which is the thing far more likely to cause transmission..

    Visually Informative as a means of showing how contamination by touch spreads, though I thought that was already obvious and well known.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @02:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @02:15PM (#998146)

    > Visually Informative as a means of showing how contamination by touch spreads, though I thought that was already obvious and well known.

    You give people too much credit. Stop and think about the "open everything up now" protesters--would seeing this demo give them any pause?

    As a good friend once pointed out, the IQ scale is centered at 100... (not that IQ is a great measure of anything, but it probably does measure some things).

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @04:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @04:49PM (#998180)

      I present to you: Latvia. A very nice Baltic country without a lockdown, without mandatory masks, with working shops, markets and, yes, restaurants and cafes. The primary anti-virus measure was social distancing, which is getting relaxed now too.
      Right now, per 1.8 million population: 1046 infected, 712 of which already recovered and confirmed virus-free, 22 died with the virus (no one younger that 50).
      https://spkc.gov.lv/lv/tavai-veselibai/aktualitate-par-jauno-koronavi [spkc.gov.lv]