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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 20 2020, @05:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the shining-a-cleansing-light dept.

New York MTA is battling COVID-19 with UV lights and infrared sensors:

New York City may be opening back up for business, but that doesn't mean everybody's ready to hop aboard its trains and buses yet. While daily ridership on subways and buses is up 380,000 compared with the period before the June 8 reopening date, that's still a fraction of the millions of riders who commuted in the pre-pandemic days.

[...] Last month, the MTA began shutting down the subway system between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.daily -- the first time it's ever done so -- to disinfect the cars. Foye made the point that it wasn't simply a cleaning, but actually disinfecting the cars, and noted it happens twice a day.

At the same time, the agency launched a $1 million pilot program to use ultraviolet light to sterilize its cars. The MTA plans to deploy 150 mobile devices at stations and rail yards to test the effectiveness of UV, and Foye said that the early research conducted by Columbia University has been promising.

Meanwhile, cycling naturally enforces distance, is faster, and costs nothing.


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @06:27AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @06:27AM (#1010288)

    Starts in Tulsa, spreads to the rest of America! The Trump Plague! Antifa is targeting the Trump rally by not requiring masks, and allowing at-risk demographics and really stupid old people to be in a confined space where they will all spit upon each other. And I can guarantee, there with be one Antifa in the center, yelling pro-trump slogans more loudly than anyone, only to infect everyone because she/he is covid19 super-spreader positive. Trump voters are going to die. But, you know, who can say it is from Covid19? They were already old and stupid, they might have died from that anyway in the next few months, being elderly Trump Supporters, like the Elderly Trump himself, having trouble with ramps, erections, and glasses of water.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @02:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @02:22PM (#1010372)

    Antifa is forcing carriers to wear red hats.