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Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus

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174 points jbegley | 1 comments | 03 Apr 20 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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SQueeeeeL[dead post] ◴[03 Apr 20 15:52 UTC] No.22770495[source]▶
We're so fucked, we can't even distribute supplies to people who can't leave their homes without giving them massive exposure risk. Not sure why it's so hard to buy some fucking masks and gloves for the warehouse
easytiger ◴[03 Apr 20 16:22 UTC] No.22770849[source]▶
Detecting RNA on cardboard after 24 hours doesn't equal "massive exposure risk."

The odds of getting a virus from a mailed package are astronomical and then some

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SQueeeeeL ◴[03 Apr 20 16:26 UTC] No.22770891[source]▶
There's a lot of plastic in Amazon packages I get... someone could easily sweat on the shrink wrap of my floss
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easytiger[dead post] ◴[03 Apr 20 16:34 UTC] No.22771029[source]▶
Again, there has been no evidence that there has even been one community transmission by mail items. There is precious little information about how much surface relay of this or any other virus is much of a problem anyway.

Were you full Howard Hughes mysophobia before this came out?

1. kyuudou ◴[03 Apr 20 16:44 UTC] No.22771194[source]▶
>no evidence that there has even been one community transmission by mail items.

How would this even be tested or proven to any reasonable assurance? The PCR test is questionable enough as it is. "Hold on sir while we build this biolab on your front lawn and isolate all objects that could've come from outside of the house then test them"