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Old 09-04-2020, 12:27   #1951
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Re: Coronavirus: PM Boris Johnson in Intensive Care

Plenty of current and past examples of where large concentrated gatherings are the problem, resulting in large numbers, ie not one or two, of infections. Eg If you're driving a bus and then go to a church or mosque then the bus wasn't the only potential source. The key aspect is not rich or poor, but behaviour. The claim has been made that the poor are somehow more likely to get it. It is people's behaviour that makes it more likely, not wealth.


Eg recent case of group from around the country gathering in the peak district to have a picnic and share a shisha pipe. If just one of them had the virus, then ALL of them would end up with it. They would ALL then return to their homes and most likely share a shisha pipe with others, thereby spreading it further. In that example, just one infected person could've spread it to over a 100 others. Wealth or otherwise doesn't come into it, behaviour does.
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