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Comment author: tut 19 January 2015 03:18:26PM 15 points [-]

The difference is that food workers are what is known as superspreaders.

If you go around sneezing in a restaurant kitchen you will infect hundreds of costumers . Whereas if you go around sneezing in your office you will at worst infect a few dozen coworkers.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 19 January 2015 08:43:53PM 4 points [-]

You reminded me of the time I reprimanded a postal employee because he had found that envelopes opened faster if he blew into them. I didn't manage to convince him that with such a routine he could easily infect the entire country.