Why Don't We Mandate Stricter Hygiene Standards for Food Service Workers (and delivery) in the US?
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Anonymous
Lol. Still skipping the lab leak, are we? Anyway, I have been all over Asia and rarely see food sanitation practices that meet those at a McDonalds outside wealthy areas of major cities. |
Anonymous
+1 Look at actual statistics, OP. Where do people get sick from foodborne issues? From veggies/food with listeria or e coli sold at grocery stores or sometimes restaurants. Not from servers not wearing face masks. |
Anonymous
| If you start requiring your door dash driver to wear a mask, hairnet and gloves, good luck getting any deliveries. You’ll have to get you fat a$$ off your couch and do it yourself. Your food is packaged in several layers. What possible kind of contamination do you think the driver could do? This is a you problem. Xanax is your friend. |
Anonymous
+100000 I can't belive people are still thinking this happened at a wet market. I can't. It's like they've done zero research about the lab, what happened, who was funding the lab.... |
Anonymous
Have you looked into any of the genome information for the samples that were able to be taken and tested? |
Anonymous
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Because 70M Americans don't want to be given any instructions on health standards. From vaccines to milk to wearing a mask during a pandemic.
They are also voting away our ability to have a safe food supply. So yeah, mandating more hair nets isn't going to happen when we are busy arguing if the sky is blue with 70M people who think it's red. |
Anonymous
Have you ever been to a wet market? Hardly a bulwark of sanitation!!! |
Anonymous
It wasn’t a lab leak. Scientists saw it was most likely a market https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9874793/#:~:text=According%20to%20epidemiological%20studies%2C%20the,SARS%E2%80%90CoV%E2%80%902%20infection. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03026-9 |
Anonymous
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Former food service person here.
They've actually shown typical use of gloves is much dirtier than hand washing. It's also significantly less safe to wear gloves in a potential burn situation, even in lab we would go bare handed when pulling glassware. A burn while wearing gloves is generally significantly worse. Food borne illnesses are generally not spread through the air so masking doesn't generally increase food safety. Masks are for direct person to person transmission. Every place I've worked has required my hair to be back and I've generally been required to wear a hat of some kid. |
Anonymous
But it would make OP feel better. Isn't that a good enough reason for new regulations? |
Anonymous
Except for the dead scientists who said it was from their lab leak. Who spoke up right away. Except that. |
Anonymous
| I think the scientists went to the wet market. |
Anonymous
I’m still not clear on this. Sometimes I read something from some relatively authoritative source that says it was most likely from a wet market, then I read another that says it came from that lab. If I had to guess I’d say it was the lab given that the techs there were sick pretty early on. |
Anonymous
| I wish the hygiene practices of my Asian coworkers would follow from food service to the restroom. I’ve never seen dirtier hygiene practices in a restroom setting than from my Asian coworkers. Let’s just say, squatting is the preferred method - and it gets everywhere. |
Anonymous
Same. |