Why the Tube or subway could be safer
than you think: Scientists say public
transport may not be a major source
of coronavirus spread after all
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Connor Boyd
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/3/2020 10:33:09 AM
Catching coronavirus on public transport is far less likely than once feared, fresh data suggests. Trains, buses and planes were earmarked as potential Covid-19 hotspots by experts around the world at the start of the crisis. This is because Covid-19 thrives in enclosed indoor spaces with little ventilation and densely packed crowds of people. But research suggests that, if masks are worn and social distancing is adhered to, the chance of the virus spreading on public transport is minimal. Contact tracing studies looking into hundreds of Covid-19 clusters in France, Austria and Japan linked fewer than 1 per cent
Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 8/3/2020 10:39:41 AM (No. 498464)
Yeah, NYC subways and inept, corrupt politicians couldn't be responsible for their ridiculously high per capita deaths compared to India or even other states, could they?
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Social distancing on a subway or train car ??? Being an expert means you are a low grade moron.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 8/3/2020 10:44:33 AM (No. 498470)
There are only 4 possible answers to a medical question like "what are the odds of catching Covid19 in the Tube?"
1) Yes
2) No
3) Don't know
4) a numerical response.
"research suggests" =: Don't know
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/3/2020 10:45:53 AM (No. 498472)
Political damage control for the New York fiasco.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 8/3/2020 10:46:47 AM (No. 498476)
The Prime Minister head of Nat Health Service, Mayor and Parliament should start riding the Tube then....Queenie and fam too.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/3/2020 10:47:18 AM (No. 498478)
Science is what you wake up and believe today, you can change your mind tomorrow. Example, Dr. Faux-chi. When they say science is not exact, they're right. These experts change direction more than a squirrel on a busy street.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cold porridge 8/3/2020 10:50:13 AM (No. 498483)
Every single "fact" professed at the beginning of this plandemic has now been turned 180 degrees into an opposite "fact." This virus poses little threat to humans.....oh wait, its a catastrophic nightmare! Masks don't work....oh wait, everyone MUST wear masks. It lives for hours and hours on surfaces, oh wait, it doesn't live long on surfaces. Fauci was in support of Hydroxychloroquine in 2005 for a similar virus, but now is against it's use. (Probably because he has a financial interest in vaccines.) We all know this is not much worse than a regular flu. People need to be in prison for this fraud on our country.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 8/3/2020 11:06:02 AM (No. 498504)
“Scientists” were a formerly respected group. Presently, they, their opinions and advice, are less than a dime a dozen. Flip a coin or roll the dice and chances are your result will be at least as reliable. Only about one in ten publications in formerly respected journals are reproducible.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/3/2020 11:07:46 AM (No. 498508)
If space around us - social distancing - is important (as is usually thought to be the conventional wisdom in epidemics), then this “new” notion makes no sense.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/3/2020 11:09:02 AM (No. 498511)
(hit submit too soon)
I think the ringers may be those who carry the virus but do not display symptoms - or at least the level of symptoms that would come to the attention of a doctor or an ER.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 8/3/2020 11:21:08 AM (No. 498529)
Yep, this is "science" served up on a silver platter with the meal cooked to order. Public transportation is a darling of the Left, so, like the elbow to elbow BLM riots, it simply isn't possible that it spreads their pet disease.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SavageRider 8/3/2020 12:10:48 PM (No. 498591)
I don't need an epidemiologist or other "expert" to tell me a subway is full of filthy surfaces and crammed with people, a perfect place to spread disease. Why have we given up our common sense in fighting this newest version of the flu?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 8/3/2020 12:40:40 PM (No. 498620)
All this back and forth, up is down and down is up, and mask no mask, social distancing no social distancing is making me motion sick...obviously, no one knows jackcrap about the virus except it came from China....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/3/2020 12:41:29 PM (No. 498622)
If that's true, nothing is a major source of the virus' spread. Get outta here with that.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/3/2020 12:51:59 PM (No. 498636)
There is a 50-50 chance of being mugged, spat on, or being cursed. A 100% chance of bad odors, and filth. The only 1% chance of getting the virus on public transportation matches the chance of getting it anywhere. On the testing, there is a 30% that a positive test is wrong---and a 30% chance that a negative test is wrong, which says: you would have a test as accurate with a 50-50 chance coin flip.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/3/2020 1:39:56 PM (No. 498667)
Gotta lie to save the cities. Once people realize that public transportation is no longer safe, the cities DIE.
The left depends on the cities, so the public transportation MUST be "proven" safe....real or not makes not the slightest difference. A leftist imperative, 'save the public transportation'.
They want you subservient for your transportation, you food, your EVERYTHING to the state, can't have people moving out of the cities.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Historybuff 8/3/2020 2:03:48 PM (No. 498694)
NY did nothing to get the bums off the subway during this time. They are not homeless, they live on the subway. In Dec it was not uncommon to get on a train with 3 bums per car. NYPD was told not to roust them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/3/2020 2:50:17 PM (No. 498760)
In my professional career, I daily connected dots of evidence. Here are some dots to connect. Major hot spots include slaughter houses, meat packing plants, and most infamously the Wuhan wet markets. See any common connection with bloody carcasses? What do nursing homes have to do with blood? Nothing. The bodily fluid in unfortunate abundance is produced by incontinent residents who despite Depends often soak bedsheets, mattresses and clothes. The latest micro hotspot is 46 new cases among outdoor construction workers building the new NFL stadium in Inglewood, California. Not blood, not urine, but sweat is the bodily fluid in abundant supply. See any connection between construction workers in 90 degree Los Angeles heat to sweat this summer among residents in the hot and humid South, including on Florida's beaches? Some insist the virus is not airborne. Perhaps, but there have been many later-retracted theories about it. Blood, urine and sweat sound like a great environment for an airborne virus to breed. Someone should investigate.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
davew 8/3/2020 3:02:20 PM (No. 498779)
This also applies to airliners which have HEPA air filtration and elaborate sanitization procedures that virtually eliminate the risk of infection if people wear masks.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/3/2020 3:11:50 PM (No. 498794)
Revenues must be down. Like the Nursing Homes, we've got to pack the infected in with the rest of the customers. So a few will die, what's the problem? Maybe get rid of some riff raff that might vote for President Trump. They are mostly working people, after all...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
red1066 8/3/2020 4:27:07 PM (No. 498873)
Here's the reason the U.S. has experienced far more deaths than any other country from the Chinese virus. It's because far too many U.S. citizens are grossly overweight. Being overweight leads to an increase in other medical issues, and since having secondary medical issues leads to an increase in the chance of dying from the Chinese virus, common sense seems to point to those without weight issues also have a fairly low chance of any complications from the virus.
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