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.
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.