Common sense. Subways and trains are like being stuck on the cruise ships. Incubators for spreading the virus.
Until they deal with this in NY it's going to be a huge fucking problem for all of us.
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Common sense. Subways and trains are like being stuck on the cruise ships. Incubators for spreading the virus.
Until they deal with this in NY it's going to be a huge fucking problem for all of us.
The subways are still running?? Haven't they shut those fucking petri dishes down, yet??!
Jeez, every time I touch one of those credit card terminals, I gel the crap outta my hands before I touch another thing, including my bags of groceries.
How can people ride those swaying, wobbly trains without having to sit down or grab the bars, straps, seats...each other...so frequently that no amount of gel is sufficient?
Leftism and hyper-urbanization truly is a 'stupidity disease'.
Spouse is in NYC right now, as a first responder.
DeBlasio severely cut the number of trains and subways in the last few weeks, like London, forcing all first responders to cram together on mass transit.
NOTHING they are doing is based upon science. It's a joke, particularly the death count. EVERY patient is being classified as a CV death. For $$$. And power.
Those 15% of cases is more like 2%.
The testing tents are EMPTY. The news literally paid people to line up at the Queens hospital tent for a few camera shots. Almost no one has been there at "ground zero" since.
Thanks for the intel.
They need to stay open for hospital workers and grocery stores, pharmacies, etc.
Those people have ID cards (or should, if they're in infrastructure jobs). Monitoring access should be a priority for controlling a primary disease vector: public transportation. If they're not doing this, it means they're not really taking this seriously and it's all just a scam to bilk money out of the government.
That would involve manpower and thousands of workers manning every subway entrance. Token clerks are an endangered species at the MTA
as someone who lived in japan for five years; you develop a stance when riding subways or trains. also, japanese subways are spotless, and as others have mentioned, wearing a mask is a frequent cultural practice. also, the japanese are not huggy-face/kissypoo people like we are.
One of the best long term things to come out of this will be that it’s socially acceptable not to do all that affectionate shit with people you barely know. I hate it with a heart felt passion.
I work in a straight talk no bullshit industry where there is never any contact besides a handshake and half the time you don’t even need to do that.
However, some of my vendors are in an industry where you hug and air kiss anyone you see like they are long lost relatives. It drives me nuts. I avoid in-person meetings with those people.
i'm a southerner: 'bama. we're a huggy-kissy bunch. we've had to mend our ways a bit....but i'm sure we'll go back to greeting everyone like they're second cousins on our mama's side that we haven't seen since the last family reunion.
I'm 60. I can still vividly recall as a tot, my paternal grandmother and great grandmothers doing the kissing on the lips thing. Blech! Mom's side of the family was far more formal and non huggy kissy (except for that one GD second cousin that made me squirm). I'm thinking that the formality of certain cultures was/is perhaps an intuitive distancing normalcy to keep the big wigs safe from the great unwashed. Not a bad thing.
I am not a hugger. Maybe that's why I haven't been sick in 30 years.
The issue is NYC, with its rickety, antiquated system--not Japan, with its mania for train tech and cleanliness. Have you ever smelled a NYC subway entrance? The scuzzbags literally use those as public-access toilets.
It is this way because the culture of NYC allows it. NO fucking shame.
Not just that, but the trains are bum-a-palloza now, even in the middle of rush hour, thanks to an idiot cuck mayor that doesn’t believe in law and order.