Posted on 02/29/2020 5:10:15 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
With almost eight million people riding MTA subways, buses and commuter trains every weekday--often in overcrowded conditions--the transit system has the potential to spread the coronavirus should a serious outbreak occur in New York.
So what is the agency doing to prepare for the virus and help to protect public health? NY1 Transit Reporter Dan Rivoli has the details:
The MTA's safety chief begins each day trying to learn the latest about the spread of the coronavirus.
"Every morning--about 8:30--we bring together all of the safety and health and emergency management individuals from not only the headquarters here but all the agencies that are part of MTA," said Chief Safety Officer Patrick Warren.
The daily conference calls happen inside the MTA's lower Manhattan headquarters, where staffers monitor the news and social media, as well as surveillance cameras on MTA bridges, and in its stations, depots and rail yards.
"We go over what's going on in the world, what's going to happen with the counts of incidents out there until we get that general idea of what's going on," said Warren.
(Excerpt) Read more at ny1.com ...
Violent outbreak???
This will really keep NYC busy.
A violent outbreak of disease on the subways
What movie is that from?
I had the same thought.
One more example of the leftist axiom: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” - Rahm Emanuel
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” - Rahm Emanuel
Part 2 to that statement should be:
“If it’s not a serious crisis, make it one.”
Remember all those guns and ammo purchased by the CDC, HHS and other gov't. agencies last administration?
Tik-Tok.....
Outbreaks aren’t violent. They’re silent. Violent is very different.
Obviously a civilian author.
They were looking for the word “Virulent.”
It’s from the Medusa episode from the XFiles. The scene is set in Boston but haven’t looked into where it was filmed.
They make UTC germicidal lights that don’t harm humans. The subways should install them on the trains and the terminals.
You don’t have to turn them on until there is community spread.
They could disinfect the cars every couple of hours.
Every little bit helps.
Where does the article or the title say ‘violent’?
But the title doesn’t say either if you open the link
You mean UVC, ultraviolet germicidal lightbulbs. Interesting idea. Thanks.
Remember way back in the 1950s when the CIA sprayed a non lethal dose of virus in the subways to see how it spread?
Wonder if they learned anything.
In other words, they're pretending to do something while in fact they just watch and hope.
To do any good, they should act like the virus is already in NYC and on the trains, which it probably is.
Thanks for the info. I haven’t seen that episode yet although I do like the x files.
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