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So much hot air from the mayor and governor, yet subways are still crowded and the housing projects are just petri dishes with some having a single primary main entrance, one working elevator that is packed and HVAC systems that send each cough and sneeze through the venilation systems.
COVID-19 is bad enough and the toll is increasing daily very fast tragically. But with SARS, MERS and many pandemics of Pneumonia so far this century spreading throughout the world several times a decade typically it seems like the third-world conditions of our cities need to be evaluated.
They cut the service because of lower ridership but the decreases have not been uniform, so the reductions in service have caused crowded subways to continue.
The housing authority has an estimated total of one million people according to the director.
I just watched a video online of one large skyscraper housing project with tremendous amounts of people and they go through the front door and they have one working tiny elevator which has to transport all the residents up and down the skyscraper.
Not only that each cough and sneeze ends up in the air ducts in the HVAC system.
Does it make you happy to post things like this? Do you relish the thought of people getting sick because they live in a state/city that you, personally, would not like to live in? Or do you think your incessant posting on an Internet forum of the evils of dense cities will somehow make them...go away?
I am truly interested in your motivation for posting this.
Last edited by Cantabridgienne; 03-28-2020 at 09:30 AM..
So much hot air from the mayor and governor, yet subways are still crowded and the housing projects are just petri dishes with some having a single primary main entrance, one working elevator that is packed and HVAC systems that send each cough and sneeze through the venilation systems.
COVID-19 is bad enough and the toll is increasing daily very fast tragically. But with SARS, MERS and many pandemics of Pneumonia so far this century spreading throughout the world several times a decade typically it seems like the third-world conditions of our cities need to be evaluated.
They cut the service because of lower ridership but the decreases have not been uniform, so the reductions in service have caused crowded subways to continue.
The housing authority has an estimated total of one million people according to the director.
I just watched a video online of one large skyscraper housing project with tremendous amounts of people and they go through the front door and they have one working tiny elevator which has to transport all the residents up and down the skyscraper.
Not only that each cough and sneeze ends up in the air ducts in the HVAC system.
My mom and her husband live on the 27th floor of their building in NYC. Should he take the stairs on the way back from his chemo treatments because he is “exercise deprived”?
So much hot air from the mayor and governor, yet subways are still crowded and the housing projects are just petri dishes with some having a single primary main entrance, one working elevator that is packed and HVAC systems that send each cough and sneeze through the venilation systems.
COVID-19 is bad enough and the toll is increasing daily very fast tragically. But with SARS, MERS and many pandemics of Pneumonia so far this century spreading throughout the world several times a decade typically it seems like the third-world conditions of our cities need to be evaluated.
They cut the service because of lower ridership but the decreases have not been uniform, so the reductions in service have caused crowded subways to continue.
The housing authority has an estimated total of one million people according to the director.
I just watched a video online of one large skyscraper housing project with tremendous amounts of people and they go through the front door and they have one working tiny elevator which has to transport all the residents up and down the skyscraper.
Not only that each cough and sneeze ends up in the air ducts in the HVAC system.
It is unfortunate that large urban areas (simply as a matter of normal existence) involve contact with many other people. This is why such places are appealing to many in the first place. It is nearly impossible in such an environment to "shelter in place", as they are so dependent on continual contact for their existence.
I really don't know what citizens in those areas can do for themselves. It is unfortunate we do not have massive resources to distribute millions of N-95 masks, gloves, bleach, and hand sanitizer to all those residents. Perhaps in the fall, we will be better prepared and can do so for these areas in which there are high population densities.
Keep in mind for those who are tragically smug about the plight of New York that in pandemics, "what goes around comes around". It is to our mutual health to have the virus defeated EVERYWHERE.
I am no fan of liberals, but a pandemic is a time in which we put aside all political differences and understand we are all in this together.
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