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nctnico:

--- Quote from: Muttley Snickers on April 24, 2020, 09:54:33 am ---Today I walked up to the local shopping complex and one thing I noticed was almost every store has had acrylic shields installed around each cashiers station. I saw these shields installed at the local Aldi a few weeks ago and now they are everywhere. Installing these barriers would be a good little business to be in about now and probably some good money in it as well.     

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Yup. These shields popped up here quickly as well. Some shops have more or less boxed the cashiers in which prompts me to ask the cashier whether they like their aquarium.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 24, 2020, 12:52:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: Muttley Snickers on April 24, 2020, 09:54:33 am ---Today I walked up to the local shopping complex and one thing I noticed was almost every store has had acrylic shields installed around each cashiers station. I saw these shields installed at the local Aldi a few weeks ago and now they are everywhere. Installing these barriers would be a good little business to be in about now and probably some good money in it as well.     

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Yup. These shields popped up here quickly as well. Some shops have more or less boxed the cashiers in which prompts me to ask the cashier whether they like their aquarium.

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They probably feel safer this way. Note that those shields are nothing new - they had been already there in some banks, post offices, etc, for a long time (probably more for physical safety reasons than virus spreading).

Wearing a mask all day is much more annoying (IMO) than being behind an acrylic shield. I hate masks. But in many shops currently, cashiers have both...
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 24, 2020, 01:36:55 pm ---They probably feel safer this way. Note that those shields are nothing new - they had been already there in some banks, post offices, etc, for a long time (probably more for physical safety reasons than virus spreading).
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Not in Australia, they were rare before this.
There was this big to-do maybe 20+ years ago now about Taxi's in Sydney (and Australia wide?) installing these perspex protective shields around the driver, I think by government mandate after some assault or something. Everyone decried it as "un-Australian", and I'm not sure how long they lasted but I haven't seen one in donkey's years.
These shields will go the same way by the end of the year.
nctnico:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 24, 2020, 01:43:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 24, 2020, 01:36:55 pm ---They probably feel safer this way. Note that those shields are nothing new - they had been already there in some banks, post offices, etc, for a long time (probably more for physical safety reasons than virus spreading).
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Not in Australia, they were rare before this.
There was this big to-do maybe 20+ years ago now about Taxi's in Sydney (and Australia wide?) installing these perspex protective shields around the driver, I think by government mandate after some assault or something. Everyone decried it as "un-Australian", and I'm not sure how long they lasted but I haven't seen one in donkey's years.
These shields will go the same way by the end of the year.

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Ofcourse. Over here most of the shields are clearly temporary installations. However I think it will be later than the end of the year though before the shields can go. It is wise to assume we'll be dealing with the Corona virus for another 12 months.
james_s:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on April 24, 2020, 10:15:15 am ---Yea, but when the AIDS thing was all the rage,  wondered if the 'authorities' just didn't want people to know about the possibility? of problems with Mosquitoes piercing/sucking blood, moving from person to person, could result in a transmission! (Likewise with other bugs today)  ???

I also wondered about infected (from parents) children in Kindergarten wet sucking/chewing on pencils etc, before the same item gets picked up and put in the mouth of other children then??  (Sharing fluids). We need to be more vigilant, these days...  :(

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HIV isn't transmitted by mosquitoes and it isn't transmitted by saliva. It has to be direct contact between blood or mucus membranes. You can't catch it by sharing a glass or chewing on a pencil, it's extremely rare for it to be transmitted by anything other than sexual contact.
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