anyone watch PBS Newshour???? tonight just a great piece on the virus in Chinatown in SF......

[a kennedy]

https://www.pbs.org/video/combating-covid-1594848261/. I'm sure tRump didn't watch this one......him and his condemning of China. Ugh.......

[kimbutgar]

1. I live in SF and immediately the first people I saw in compliance wearing masks were the Asian

Population in the city.

[Hortensis]

2. Interesting. Experts have pointed out that masks aren't strange

or new to some Asian cultures and that that's been a big advantage to those.

[kimbutgar]

3. Exactly, I noticed when they started talking about CV19 I saw an uptick in Asian people wearing

Masks and this was in February.

And the only stores in the beginning that had masks available were the Japanese stores. I was able to score gloves and wipes also.

[central scrutinizer]

5. I was in Japan in early March

There wasn’t a single positive case in this prefecture but 70 percent of the people on the streets and 100 percent of workers in stores were masked. I, of course, always wore a mask out of respect and courtesy.

[Hortensis]

6. "Of course." Of course. :) Wish I'd known to shop Japanese stores.

I've read that Japan has controlled spread in the context of tightly packed population and lots of elderly. But, of course, there's now concern about the danger of cases on American military bases. Such small numbers, 100-200, that they'd be lost among the millions of cases here, but worrisome and unacceptable there. Bases are on lock-down.

[LAS14]

4. k & r