In general, can I potentiallyy get the coronavirus from eating fast food.
Also because this is the SDMB I don’t want the first 20 replies telling me about how you don’t eat fast food and nobody else should either.
Yes very dangerous, especially Domino’s pizza.
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Until congress passes that emergency Sick leave bill, I’d be quite concerned. If fast food workers have a choice of working while sick or not paying the rent and becoming homeless, they are gonna work sick.
Most are pretty stringent about washing hands, sure, but it’s so easy to scratch your nose and keep on prepping that burger.
Myself, I am staying away.
Why do you say this?
The coronavirus is a respiratory infection, not a food-borne illness, so technically you can’t catch it from what you eat. But a fast food restaurant, like any other public place, could bring you into contact with an infected person.
Here’s one current article I found: How McDonald’s, Chipotle, and Other Fast Food Chains Are Responding to the COVID-19 Outbreak
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Well, it depends. If you order a large you have a 15% risk of infection. But if you order two mediums your risk drops to 0.02%
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“How concerned should I be” is more a matter of opinion than fact, so I am going to move this to IMHO. Factual information to support opinions about how concerned one should be is of course welcome in IMHO.
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The safety of food is a very valid concern. A lot of people are avoiding restaurants and using food delivery services like Bite Squad and GrubHub.
My family isn’t ordering any pizza. The large box seems like the perfect surface for germs from hands or coughs.
We ordered from DQ using Bite Squad. Hoping that the outer bag protected the food. (the DQ bag is separate from the paper delivery bag)
We are searching for legitimate answers. How safe is food delivery? So far there’s not much information.
We may have to eat whatever can be cooked at home. The grocery stores are already getting low on soups and other easily heated food.
How does GrubHub protect you if somebody sick sneezes on you food while it is being made?
My guess is you drastically increase your chances of being infected with Covid-19 by eating fast food. I also guess Covid-19 is just a run of the mill virus, but that is something I have argued in other threads.
It doesn’t. 
That’s why the State Health Departments needs to significantly increase restaurant inspections. Make sure the food safety regulations are followed.
But, the sheer numbers of Covid-19 is unique. The odds that someone sick is preparing food go up dramatically.
We’re only a week or two behind Italy in reaching the crises they’re facing.
What is the threshold number of deaths there will have to be before you finally admit to being utterly wrong? (I’m gessing infinity.)
Fast food? Heck, I will be avoiding **all **restaurants - including prepared food from the supermarket - until this is done.
A friend of mine works at a local sandwich place, you can kinda consider it like a local version of Subway although it’s got a bigger menu.
Employees are very well aware that everyone is carrying around a camera and that one pic can go viral instantly and ruin a restaurant. So, everyone follows all the hygiene rules. I would feel comfortable eating fast food or any restaurant food of a place I regularly frequent.
This is one of my concerns. If we do go to work, it’s either the company restaurant or the nearby restaurants, assuming they are stil open. If we were to bring a lunch it would be something cold to eat at our desks (ick) or could use the one microwave in the building, or the microwave in the company restaurant.
All arguments for working from home, or at least, working only a part day at the office, then coming home for lunch, and staying there.