Not sure working in the country is much benefit. What about: gas pump handles, shopping carts, door handles etc. The flu virus can last hours at lower temperatures. Just takes one worker coming into contact then coughing or sneezing at the job site.
We have 2 out from my office at work.
I don’t have a firm reason why it works for us as a crew, so I can only speculate-but it does and has worked for several years. My guess is that it is a combo of a lot of things.
As site/project manager, I’m responsible for job safety and injury prevention, I do not allow anyone with any cough/sneeze on my jobsite-I expect everyone to have hand sanitizer in their truck and use it. No one shakes customers’ hands, either-the customers don’t mind that at all.
No one has been on this crew for less than 5 years, or lives more than 14-15 miles away-which puts us all in the same small area in which there are no towns-nearest one is 18 miles away and tiny-800 people, small independent grocery store, no big box, etc-a village. There are a couple of gas stations out here, a general store, a hardware store, 2 restaurants-and a post office within 12 miles. This place is mostly a collection of old hippies, rednecks, hermits-mostly preppers/off griders who are somewhat clannish. Herbal cures that aren’t in someone’s greenhouse are available online-most people don’t trust or use drugs, for various reasons-I’m one of those.
Unfortunately, like any remote area, there is usually a meth cooker/dealer living quietly on my road or another one, but their customers come from the city over 40 miles away-that is how they get busted-strange activity and vehicles on a regular basis at the same place gets noticed.
This is a tourist trap in summer, but it is totally deserted in winter- the closest thing to tourists/transients here at this time of year are the snowbirds staying in the cabins and RV spaces for the winter-they’ve been here since early-mid November and will leave in late March.
Most kids out here are not in public school-they’re homeschooled or at the tiny local Christian school-I don’t know if the isolation and absence of strangers in winter, the prevalence of a tougher more natural lifestyle etc have anything to do with immunity or whatever-it is anyone’s guess...