Posted on 03/28/2020 6:37:26 AM PDT by billorites
Wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds. Maintain 6 feet of separation from others. Don’t lick the T.
An unidentified man reportedly broke the last of those key safety precautions against contracting coronavirus on Friday morning, when the MBTA had to take an Orange Line train out of service because someone apparently was licking the poles inside it.
“Out of an abundance of caution, a southbound train was taken out of service after a passenger reported the alleged incident to a Transit Ambassador at Tufts Medical Center Station,” T spokesman Joe Pesaturo told the Herald on Friday. “Transit Police were notified of the alleged incident.”
The alleged incident was a guy licking the train, Pesaturo confirmed. He said the man was inside the car at the downtown stop, licking the poles, which are normally for people to hold onto as the train moves.
Transit Police searched the area for the man, but the man had split.
T data shows that none of the new Orange Line trains were in service on Friday, which means that the car in question has been shuttling passengers up and down the transit system’s second-busiest line for going on 40 years.
This licking incident comes as the coronavirus spreads rapidly, leading to a widespread focus on personal hygiene and sanitation. The T has implemented a regime of disinfecting all stations every 4 hours, and all trains once a day in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, a respiratory disease that’s become a global pandemic.
The T has sharply reduced service, and ridership has dropped amid the global pandemic, and has started having all buses and Green Line trolleys board through rear doors. Five T employees have tested positive for the virus, including three bus drivers.
The T’s latest precautions came Friday, when it cut out shared trips on the RIDE, its paratransit service, for which it will now require one- to three-day advance booking.
As the Herald has reported, the virus can stick to some surfaces for up to 72 hours, making cleaning equally as important as social distancing.
Common symptoms of this new coronavirus, which surfaced in China a few months ago and has swept the globe since, include fever, coughing and shortness of breath, and the highly contagious disease can lead to life-threatening breathing issues, mainly in older adults and people with pre-existing conditions.
On Friday, there were 477 Bostonians who had tested positive, including two who have died. Statewide, 3,240 people have tested positive and 35 have died. More than 100,000 Americans have the disease.
I can still recall the smell of urine when changing trains at Park St.
What if this guy licked the third
rail...
[= electrocution]
Orange Line bad...
This will stop when groups of people “explain” to offenders that behavior of this type is not acceptable.
‘Orange Line bad..’
ha ha ha...
Orange Line has long been called the Terror Train...
“...Transit Police searched the area for the man, but the man had split...”
“split”....Journalism at it’s best...LOL
Groovy.
Why aren’t people gloving up and punching these nutballs in the face?
Yep...LOL
All the cell phones on board and not a photo of the licking?
better still, shoot the sob. That way there is no repeat offence possible. Show film clips odf shooting on a do loop on the metro to deter others
I hate the term “out of an abundance of caution”
Because Masshole is not just a clever expression
Come on people. How far are we going to take this? Are we going to go from social distancing to a full hazmat suit with a purified external positive air flow? I think,in my opinion,that the jig is up. If the percentages of death to positive cases don’t change in another week then give it up folks. The powers that be got what they wanted. Eternal debt. It was so revealing how happy the jerks in congress were when they were smiling ear to ear on signing this POS bill. Times up jerkwads.
Pizza delivery guy last night.
Handed me pizza
Asked him to back up and not get close
What’s you f’n problem he said
We have a virus going around and don’t want be near you
Called me a few colorful remarks
Told him to get the f off my property
Me wearing flip flops, he spit at my feet
Told him he could be DRT if he did that again
Called pizza store
Girl was SHOCKED
OWNER called me from his home, furious
He’s fired he said
Warned owner that if Mr backwards hat Masshole showed up at my place in retaliating efforts it woud be his last bad mistake and to pass it along to the jerk. I’m not playing his game.
I want to support our local businesses, but last food delivery for this house
This was the wake-up call that force changes to the next level. Drawbridge up.
Get ready freepers
The flubros are angry that they’re not getting their stuff.
People are already edgy
Armed society is a polite society
And an armed man is cautious to avoid conflict, lest he is cornered into using the resources at his disposal
It's Boston.
So great to live in a time of abundance (of caution). /s
If I saw a man licking hand poles on the subway in New York, I would be tempted to categorize the thing as inhuman, a demon, and cap its a$$ without further adieu.
Demonology 101.
Humans can become demons, you know.
Few people believe that , but all you have to do is look at a few before and after photos of Crystal Meth addicts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXIhdC33NUE
May G_d have mercy on their souls.
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