{"id":73963,"date":"2020-04-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73963"},"modified":"2020-04-26T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T20:31:45","slug":"73963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73963","title":{"rendered":"Culture Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Rush Limbaugh discussed a column by Sarah Hoyt offering a theory why the COVID-19 virus erupted in some places, but not others.\u00a0\u00a0It’s all about the culture<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Of course, Americans have been endlessly lectured that all cultures are equally valid; therefore, new arrivals to our country have no obligation to assimilate to our way of doing things.\u00a0 That makes me wonder about virus hot spots in America.\u00a0 There are virus outbreaks at pork processing plants in Worthington, Minnesota, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.\u00a0 They are “hot spots” in states with otherwise low case levels.\u00a0 Why there?<\/p>

Dig deep into the reporting and\u00a0discover the links<\/a>.\u00a0 “Walz suggested the outbreak may have spread from Sioux Falls to Worthington, noting many plant workers are employed by both JBS and Smithfield. \u201cThere\u2019s also a lot<\/p>

of family members that work in both plants,\u201d he said. JBS employs more than 2,000 people in Worthington, drawing a diverse workforce of immigrants and refugees from East Africa, Asia, Mexico and Central America.”<\/p>

Question: do immigrants\/refugees have the same tendency to obey the government’s hand-washing and social distancing orders as the German and Norwegian settlers around them?\u00a0 Or do recent immigrants\/refugees tend to ignore the government in favor of continuing their own cultural hygiene practices, which may be different from the recommended practices?<\/p>

Is diversity still our strength, or has it become our Achilles heel?<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

While Joe may have a point, I suspect it’s more physical than cultural. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been referring people to a couple of CDC articles about studies in Hong Kong and South Korea, where it appears the virus spreads through droplets carried by air currents through densely packed places – like restaurants<\/a>, buses and trains, tightly-packed open plan offices<\/a> – and, I suspect, places like meat processing plants with lots of forced air ventilation, especially plants where workers weren’t taking precautions like wearing the masks that, it seems reasonable, might prevent droplets from being sneezed out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are there cultural issues? Sure. Mobility appears to be a big one, as well – whether between Sioux Falls and Worthington or between Wuhan and Las Vegas<\/a>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…provided conditions are right to see to the spread of the virus once the people are in the same room. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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