Monday, March 02, 2020

What will happen when FDC or other federal prisons get coronavirus?

Will the corrections officers (who are already short staffed) show up to work?
Will prisoners be locked in their rooms 24-7?
Are the feds ready?

The virus is already in Chinese prisons.  From the LA Times:
Prisons are an ideal environment for viral transmission, according to medical experts. Doctors recommend keeping a distance of at least 6 feet from any sick person to avoid contagion from respiratory droplets when they cough or sneeze. Confirmed cases should remain in complete isolation, with the door closed.
“You aren’t going to see bottles of Purell. You’re going to see people existing very close together, which aids transmission,” said Brandon Brown, an epidemiologist at UC Riverside.
Perhaps the closest comparison to the prison scenario would be cruise ships, he said, where large populations living in close quarters have illustrated the virus’ explosive spread. Scientists have another concern: feces. In addition to the virus surviving for hours on surfaces — handrails, elevator buttons and even exchanged business cards — researchers suspect major contagion occurs in shared bathroom settings.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Holy shit, it must be bad if it is infecting buildings too. What is next, my car?

Anonymous said...

There's no need to fear, Mike Pence is here!
Ok, fear!

Rumpole said...

Achoo!!!

Anonymous said...

Here is Iran's answer: https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/iran-frees-54000-prisoners-to-prevent-coronavirus-from-spreading/

Given that Iran is only one of two or three countries in the world that is harsher on crime than the US, I would say its looking pretty good for our clients right now!