[Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/3/2020: ghost town

[Frank Filippone]

i do not disagree with anything you are saying... however my belief is that
the most significant way this disease is sneaking into this country ( and
any other country) is through the airports.  ( How else would it get into
Iceland as an example; or skip from China to Italy?).  Not hanging out at
an airports negates the potential that you would catch the disease from
THAT source. (Source = People with the disease flying into the US)

My conclusion is that ( hanging out at) the airports are one of the least
safe places to be.... right now..... My thinking is sort of like the old
vaudeville lines....  Why did you rob a bank?  Because that is where the
money is......

In a very short time frame, the disease will spread and airports will be no
more or less safe than going to your local Costco.

Note that we we just flew back last week from Hawaii to Lax.  We wiped down
everything and we were not alone in our actions.....

Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i at gmail.com


On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 3:59 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
wrote:

>
> > I saw a US map this morning with the infection numbers.  It does not
> > take a
> > genius to tell that EACH of the centers of infection are the same as
> > major
> > airports.
>
> True, but major airports are all built near major cities. It's the
> population centers that are the problem. Each time you add one person to
> a population, that gives one more possible host and one more possible
> victim for infectious spread. That means that the probability of disease
> growth is proportional to the square of the population. So larger cities
> will have more cases, and will also have bigger airports. I don't
> believe there is any reliable data on how much airports are involved in
> the spread of this disease.
>