We stopped going to a movie theater in downtown Houston because the carpet and cloth seats were so filthy. Mr Ditter and I both caught something and I think that was the place. I had the forethought when we left the theater that night to find the manager and tell her it was filthy and that we were never coming back. My husband ended up in the hospital for 5 days with a serious complication.
I’m getting worried about bedbugs as well! You can pick them up from upholstered things. Like in a movie theatre.
I think upholstered seating on public transit is stupid.
It is interesting that the article exposing the filthiness of California transit is written in bedbug infested New York.