… a 2011 study found that people who ride urban transit are nearly six times more likely to suffer from upper respiratory infections than people who don’t.
… a 2011 study found that people who ride urban transit are nearly six times more likely to suffer from upper respiratory infections than people who don’t.
Makes sense, on a crammed busy route you can be literally inches from a co-rider.
Bet you see a lot more masks going forward.
Things are going to change, I remember when AIDS came along, single use plastics use exploded everywhere especially dentists, doctors and clinics. Cafeterias went plastic on utensils too.
The fact that this worthless mayor told everyone to ride these virus generators, shows you he has no idea what in the heck he’s doing. This own medical people should have said NO!
Do even get me started about AIDs. I was working a medic in Calif. Nuts, just plain nuts.
Throw in the fact that they are usually working in a city environment inhaling all the fumes from that oh so green mass transit.
Yuck!
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/23/coronavirus-new-york-city-subways-conductors/
Elevators can’t be much better. NYC makes more sense now.
LOL, I first read it as Wuhan Flutists. Whaaaa?!
Good article up over at ZH. Good data which validated reopening ASAP, while quarantining only elderly at risk.
Every day this lockdown continues is a fraud.
Going to be tough selling mail in voting now or any other wet dream policy the left is trying to piggyback on this. So look for media to embargo
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/data-stop-panic-end-total-isolation
Mass transit is by its closed up nature an incubator for all kinds of maladies.
Flu would be on the top of the list.
It would be interesting to see if there is some correlation between subways and Covid-19 hotspots, e.g. New York, Wuhan, London, Montreal and relatively high density cities that do not have subways.
There were articles years ago that proved mass transit was poor choice relative to highways. I guess that information was surpassed by the transit lobby. Additionally, as the size of a transit systems increase, they tend to require more and more subsidies as they increasingly loose money.
Autonomous electric cars are likely < 10 years away from being given the green light. I've predicted for awhile now that once they're common place, the public won't tolerate huge expenditures for mass public transportation systems. Covid-19 has injected steroids into my prediction.
So, let me get this straight? I am supposed to ride a standing-room-only BART car to a State of CA meeting where 6ft social distancing is mandated? … because Gavin Newsom demands that I take mass transit … to be “green”? Yeah … green lung butter.
And I guess the MIT study recommending 21ft as the only SAFE distance … is out of the question.
Video conference, FFS! Save the business and political world a heap of “travel expenses”. Bucktooth Lizzy May can stay where she’s at and cook her own lunch on her dime, instead of sashaying her bulk through the Salt Spring Island/Air Canada travel sink hole.
Any and all increased risks associated with using mass transit is one that the progressive ruling class is happy for you to take, in fact they demand it.
When Anderson Station was the main feeder bus terminal and the end/beginning of the south leg of Ralph Kline’s Express (now there’s an oxymoron) into downtown we used to stand cheek-by-jowl shivering in our hundreds in the dark, minus 35 morning air waiting for the points to be thawed out so they could bring another train out of the garages to truck us to the farm, downtown. We would sing Amazing Grace and Rock of Ages whilst watching the rails rust all the while enduring a cacophany of coughs, hacks and sneezes, enveloped in a stinking, choking fog of second-hand breath. “Geez”, I used to think, “this can’t be healthy!” And yet here I am, almost forty years on, now a threatened species by way of advancing years – one of the ‘equal’ animals on the farm but not as ‘equal’ as some of you other animals, by George!
L-The enviro-whackos on City Councils are pushing for more high density living in high rise buildings and mass transit, mostly to reduce CO2 emissions. The Left-Overs saw city gov’t. as easy to infiltrate and twist to their ideology.
The 21st Century’s harsh reality is a future fighting serial pandemics. Surviving the economic and physical threat.
The new terms in fashion: morbidity, mortality, rate of infection, anti-virals, therapeutic, praying for a vaccine.
The “Climate Crisis” and a fashion of politically correct mass transit and high density living killed off by a C.C.P. virus.
This is what Trudeau wants for ALL Canadians except HIMSELF to rid MASS TRANSIT!!! Just like he said STAY HOME then he heads to his cottage at Harrington Lake to visit his wife and kids!! This proves that Trudeau doesn’t CARE about CANADIANS!! Now watch Trudeau welcome the C.C.P whatever China wants China gets!
Calgary may seem like free enterprise, wild west, oil industry driven city, but the progs got in control.
Insane downtown parking rates drove regular Joe Schmoe onto transit.
I’ll walk or drive. Transit sucks for too many reasons.
Covid has redrawn ideas like any close assembly of people into buildings, transport, open air arenas.
anybody check the Covid stats from China. uh huh.
Alberta is just as socialist and controlled as the rest of Canada. Freedom has been an illusion in this country for decades.
Most of the places I need to go to here in Edmonton are either within walking distance or a bike ride away.
However, there still are advantages to taking public transit. For one thing, I don’t have to worry about the nutters on the road and, if I go downtown, I don’t have to hunt for parking.
Before this flu thing came along, I could get into a train, head south to Century Park, and take an Edmonton Transit bus to the airport. All it cost was one ticket for the train and $5.00 for the bus–that’s a lot cheaper than paying $50 for cab fare.
Still, I prefer to keep my distance from other passengers, for obvious reasons.
Masks, Smasks.
If commuters don’t wear special outer clothing that they leave at the dor (home or business), there is no way to stay healthy. Of course, vaccination.
A lifetime ago, I worked in a pediatrics research lab in a hospital annex. We had our own airt handler,used the freight elevator and never worked with patients. I was ill or recovering for months since patient families and physicians, in clothes or scrubs that they had worn in the patient areas, were always “stopping by” to talk with someone.
Without a vaccine, there is no way to escape disease if you use mass transit. Hair, clothes and shoes collect it all. Masks are necessary but, by themselves, useless. (So says my experience working in the back end of a hospital for children.)