\u201cThere is ample documentation that mass gatherings can amplify and spread infectious diseases,\u201d a World Health Organization analysis on \u201cmass gatherings in the context of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza\u201d stated. \u201cSuch infections can be transmitted during the mass gathering, during transit to and from the event, and in participants\u2019 home communities upon their return.\u201d The WHO recommended, \u201cThose who are ill should be strongly encouraged to avoid air travel or other forms of mass transit.\u201d<\/p>
A 2013 \u201cGuide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response\u201d prepared for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Transportation Research Board of the National Academies stated that \u201calthough some pandemic plans for transportation systems existed, there were limited resources and plans targeted to rural and small urban transportation systems \u2026 As a result, although some agencies had all-hazards response plans available, measures for pandemics were not included.\u201d<\/p>
Last month, the Brussels-based International Association of Public Transport, in its \u201cManagement of COVID-19 Guidelines For Public Transit Operators,\u201d conceded that \u201cPublic transport systems have to be considered a high-risk environment due to: high number of people in a confined space with limited ventilation; no access control to identify potentially sick persons; a variety of common surfaces to touch (ticket machines, handrails, door knobs, etc.).\u201d Still, it also called public transit \u201can essential service to be maintained as long as reasonable.\u201d When does mass death become unreasonable, the WHO might be asked in regard to mass transit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I suspect we’ll see it suppressed sooner than later, if we let it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Likewise – making it impossible to find anything but “high density housing” (especially by zoning out all alternatives, which has the inevitable, “unintended” effect of jacking up housing prices, which leads to people doubling-up on roommates or living in less-healthy housing they can afford) has *got* to be the dumbest idea out there, if a “resilient” society is what you seek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a semi-related side note: I can imagine things more hellish than a couple of weeks of “social isolation” stacked on top of and next to other potentially-contagious people “socially isolating” themselves – but unless all those neighbors get along *really* well, it’s not as easy as you’d think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Perhaps when this Covid flap is over, we can have a serious discussion about *every single thing* the modern left has to tell us about housing, transit and urban zoning and land use policy. Mass Transit as it is today might not have actually been built as a contagion transmission mechanism – but if it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73649,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73640\/revisions\/73649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}