NHK conducted an experiment to see how germs spread at a cruise buffet.

[Fla Dem]

Link to tweet

[CottonBear]

1. Ewww! Buffets, salad bars and self serve drink stations need to be banned. N/T

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. I'd keep self serve drinks

Because if they went back to selling cups of soda it would be marked up exponentially.

[CottonBear]

5. Before the pandemic, I'd been taking my own water bottle with me.

However, I only ate out once or twice a month at my local taco joint.

Touchless, automated drink and ice dispensers would be the best option.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. Yeah I take by bottle everywhere too

Mine has both a widemouth and a bottle sized cap. I searched for a month for the right bottle. I have a handled top and bottom silicone bumper on it that glows in the dark.

Usually it's filled with red tea sweetened a touch,with stevia.

[CottonBear]

12. What brand of bottle do you have?

I am always on the lookout for the perfect water bottle. I work mostly outdoors, so it’s extra important to have the best beverage containers. At home and on the road trips, I use my Yeti tumbler for ice cold drinks. I have a Contigo coffee tumbler that is absolutely spill proof and keeps my coffee hot for hours.

I currently have a Tervis flip top water bottle with a handle top for work. However, It doesn’t keep ice cold like a Yeti. My Yeti is too expensive to risk losing at work.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

23. I have an ecovessel

30 oz with a reuzbl bumper with handle around it

[CottonBear]

24. Oh! That is a really nice water bottle!

I’m going to look online for one of those.
Thanks for the picture. 😀

[I_UndergroundPanther]

25. The cool thing

About the reuzbl
Handle bumper thing is it glows in the dark!!

They fit on yeti too

[BamaRefugee]

19. Souplantation, which was a GREAT place, has announced it is going out of business.

[link:http://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-05-07/souplantations-buffet-restaurants-closing-coronvirus|

[dalton99a]

2. Great demo

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Wow. That's scary

The fact it got on people's faces damn.

[LisaL]

6. Because a lot of people touch their faces.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. Oh I forgot about that

Good point.

[denem]

13. Which is a main point of masks

[PCIntern]

8. Many years ago at the outset of the AIDS epidemic,

A scientist placed fluorocene dye in the water retention bottles which dentists use for the air water spray when they drill teeth. A procedure was completed, possibly a crown preparation, and the walls were exposed to proper wavelengths of light and the dye was literally everywhere. It covered the equipment, the walls, the floors, the light fixtures, the knobs on the doors, the handles on The cabinets, everywhere. Now you can take all the personal protective equipment, make it work 100% correctly, and the virus is still going to linger all over the room, all over the office. This of course would be true in an elevator or a lobby or a staircase or the produce counter in a supermarket.

Anyone who believes that they can venture forth into an environment where contaminated individuals have been present and not come upon the virus is fooling themselves.

[GusBob]

9. "the age of restaurant dining is over"

Im glad because I like to cook!

[LisaM]

15. I love to cook, and have been cooking up a storm, but

restaurants are one of the things I miss the most.

[Wounded Bear]

11. I remember Mythbusters did a bit similar to this...

It's kind of shocking how fast germs can spread in basically a "normal" environment.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. I Remember That Episode

Kind of makes one appreciate the microbes that don't hurt us.
They're everywhere.

[SCantiGOP]

16. Even before the Corona days

I read an article from an infectious disease doctor of how to avoid food poisoning and viruses.
His number one rule: do not eat at buffets. He even pointed out that most foods in a salad buffet should be refrigerated instead of placed in bowls sitting in ice because the top of the food item quickly reaches room temperature.

[left-of-center2012]

17. had to look up NHK

"NHK is Japan's national broadcasting organization"

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. NHK World airs on a local PBS broadcast station here,

It is available in the Western hemisphere via FTA (Free-To-Air) satellite at 58 degrees W, C-band transponder 4160 H.

https://www.lyngsat.com/Intelsat-21.html

https://www.lyngsat.com/muxes/Intelsat-21_West-hemi_4160-H.html

[Hekate]

18. KnR

[LiberalFighter]

20. Gee I wonder if those self order devices at McDonalds have the same problem?

[Fla Dem]

21. Anything that is repeatedly touched and not disinfected in between uses. Think ATMs.

Door handles, money (one of the most infected items). I keep a disinfectant foam in my car to use as soon as I get in when I'm coming from a store, or using an atm. Then wipe down my car door handle that I used to open the door.

I tend not to wipe down groceries. Things I know won't be used right away and are non perishable I leave in the garage for a couple of days.

[progressoid]

22. Meanwhile...Carnival Cruise Line to start phasing in service from Miami, Port Canaveral on Aug. 1

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-coronavirus-carnival-cruise-line-phase-in-20200504-fztk55q2ovbnrnevtrzy6qu3ym-story.html