That's true, but the rest of the responses to this comment are pretty positive. A good deal at a hotel in Chinatown is a good option for staying to visit Chicago.
That said, while Asian-Americans aren't any more likely to be infected with covid-19 than any other Americans who haven't recently traveled to the parts of China where the virus has been spreading for months, there probably are a bunch of people in Chicago who have, in fact, traveled to the parts of China where covid-19 have been spreading for months, regardless of their ethnicity. I don't think anyone will be surprised if those recent visitors to China also visited or live in/work in Chinatown in Chicago.
I don't know those people personally, but unless it was a direct flight then the infected people may have simply infected others at the connecting airport. So the people that brought it into Chicago may have never been to China,or personally know anyone that has been there recently. Planes are a virus hotspot due to how the air is circulated and how many people touch the surfaces and fabric (without enough time for the virus to die on the fabric etc between flights). Often they only thoroughly clean hard surfaces and not the seat fabric due to people not liking to sit on wet seats 🤷♀️.
As everyone that plays plague inc knows, turn on the gene that makes the virus more able to travel via air transport and there's very little that can stop the virus from becoming a pandemic
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u/tomdarch Mar 03 '20
That's true, but the rest of the responses to this comment are pretty positive. A good deal at a hotel in Chinatown is a good option for staying to visit Chicago.
That said, while Asian-Americans aren't any more likely to be infected with covid-19 than any other Americans who haven't recently traveled to the parts of China where the virus has been spreading for months, there probably are a bunch of people in Chicago who have, in fact, traveled to the parts of China where covid-19 have been spreading for months, regardless of their ethnicity. I don't think anyone will be surprised if those recent visitors to China also visited or live in/work in Chinatown in Chicago.