Horowitz: Subways, buses & trains still running in coronavirus hot spots. How exactly does that help fight the virus?
Daniel Horowitz · April 2, 2020
It’s hard to think of a more opportune place for a contagious virus to spread than in subways and on buses. Yet, weeks into the shutdown of businesses that never engender large crowds and prohibition in some states for citizens to hike in wide-open state parks, mass transit is still running to some degree in almost every major hot spot. Let me guess: This is also scientifically sound policy built on the vaunted “models and projections,†right?
So many parts of America are now thankful they don’t live in Europe, where so many people don’t have cars and rely instead on public transportation for everything. Cars are the great beacon of freedom, movement, and individualism and the symbol of America’s wide-open expanse. Cars are extremely reliable and facilitate every level of personal liberty and economic movement, yet at the same time they are the perfect long-term and short-term vehicle for social distancing and the antidote against viral spreading. Mass transit, on the other hand, is to coronavirus what water and sunlight are to plants.
Here is a sample of some major city or state transit systems still operating either at full or at reduced capacity as of April 1:
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-subways-buses-trains-still-running-coronavirus-hot-spots-exactly-help-fight-virus/