The American public transportation system appears to be crumbling...

[brooklynite]

I've been monitoring what's going on in with our peer systems for work. Here in NY, it's a continuing struggle to find enough subway crews and bus drivers, so even with elimination of duplicate routes, we're reducing some subway lines to 15-20 minute service.

In Washington, 19 stations have been closed and trains are running every 15-20 minutes; as of this week, all rail service shuts down at 9 PM.

San Francisco eliminated all but 11 core bus routes yesterday because of lack of crews.

Philadelphia introduced a "lifeline" service with six commuter rail lines suspended, and 20 subway and light rail stations closed

Most other systems have reduced service to Sunday levels. Can't imagine how everyone will keep service operating through May.

[Igel]

1. People will recover.

But that's probably not the problem.

People will stop being scared.

There may be a 0.14% death rate for some age groups, but that doesn't let large majorities of those groups thinking that they, for sure, would be the ones to die.

Put that in the "fat-tailed risk" category.

[greenjar_01]

2. STAY HOME

Clue train.