If you draw a line between Frankfurt and Saarbrucken....somewhere in the middle is the town of Idar-Oberstein. Population of roughly 30,000 people. It's a fairly scenic town, with rock formations in the background, and half the city appears like some image out of the 1600s.
Well....yesterday, a train pulls into the town in the late afternoon, making it's way from Frankfurt to Saarbrucken. It should take around three hours for this complete trip. There's a problem onboard.....a guy is apparently throwing up, and has a fever.
There's a call for an ambulance. The police arrive with it. The ambulance crew and the emergency doctor? All in hazmat suits.
Yep, they've looked at the notes from the emergency call, and they believe it's Coronavirus.
The seventy-odd passengers onboard? Forced to wait....almost three hours. Every person is interviewed by the police and has to provide their ID.
The odds of any of them having the virus? Unknown. But your name would end up on a watch list and they could act if one or two of the seventy show symptoms....putting you on a house-arrest situation and waiting this out.
This is the chief problem with the virus.....you could be out for a business trip and meet up with a sweaty gal on the train, and half-an-hour later....she collapses on the floor of the train. Then the hazmat-suit guys arrive, and your whole day and probably the next four weeks are ruined.
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