NEW YORK (AP) — They let trains that look too crowded pass by. If they decide to board, they search for emptier cars to ride in. Then they size up fellow passengers before picking the safest spot they can find to sit or stand for commutes sometimes lasting an hour or more.
“Everybody is very scared,” Shaderra Armstead, a health care clinic receptionist who rides the subway to work, said this week. ”They’re trying to keep their distance from each other, but it’s impossible.”
“It makes me not want to go on the train at all,” she said. “I’m nervous every day, but I still have to go.”
Normally I perceive fear to be a bad thing, but not with this disease. If you listen to your fear and react with intelligence and knowledge, you can avoid the disease by taking precautions. Not everybody knows how to build a HazMat suit. I’m not at all pleased that these people find themselves in these horrible situations.
The virus has also taken the lives of 41 employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Same thing happening in other cities.
The people who do these jobs are dedicated public servants, and many of them are heroes, and not only to their own families.
Will we remember, when all is said and done?
The agency has posted signs on some trains that read: “Essential Worker, yes, ok to ride. … No — why are you even reading this? Go home.”
That is … excellent.
“New Yorkers, we don’t listen.”
No kidding!
But not unique.
Hedge-fund managers ride the commuter lines from Connecticut.
Essential workers, every single one.
I’m just a little surprised that Cuomo and de Blasio have let the subway’s keep running. I know there aren’t any alternatives to move people in NYC but, puhleeeeze, this just undermines any effort to keep distancing at the forefront of their response to COVID-19.
I’d really be scared too with 799 NY death toll yesterday AND mass grave digging in Hart Island has started!
