[searine]

In both those cases exposure is much different.

Nurses largely have the PPE needed to deal with covid and have been trained to do so. Store workers have far less exposure than a teacher trying to wrangle 30 kids for 8 hours a day.

[collegecamp293]

I would argue store workers have much higher exposure due to thousands of customers touching surfaces throughout the store everyday

[ceejayoz]

Thus far, surface transmission seems to be low. If you're not licking the payment terminal, you're likely OK in that regard.

Length of exposure to an infected person matters a lot. Spending a day in a room with an infected person is riskier than a 60 second interaction with one as you ring them up.

[leetrout]

Agree!

Comment I made the other day:

> What bothers me the most is that just like retail / grocery store workers we put people with the lowest earning potential and generally worst benefits directly in the path of this. I don’t want to get COVID but unless I convince my wife to quit her job my odds of getting it greatly increase due to situations out of my control.

[aquadrop]

Recently there came out huge serology study from Spain and according to it retail workers didn't have higher covid rates.

[searine]

Transmission is largely by aerosol over long periods of time, not fomites.

Store workers are relatively distant and contact with any one person is brief. With teachers, every surface is constantly touched and they spend all day with the children.

Store workers are also dealing with adults rather than children. Most adults know how to conduct themselves in a pandemic, most of them...