01-15-2022, 11:35 AM
(01-14-2022, 10:11 PM)ac3r Wrote: I sure as hell wouldn't want a politician driving me around haha.
GRT has held on pretty well though. At one point in 2020 they cut back a lot of service to the point where bus drivers were redeployed to other regional facilities (doing laundry and housekeeping in long term care homes for example), but they've managed to keep must routes pretty normal since then which is great. I guess with this new wave of omicron they are just having a lot of staff get sick. Maybe they could reconsider their mask policy if that's the case and get drivers fit tested for N95s. I rarely ever see their staff wearing masks because they think plexiglass will protect them against an airborne virus...somehow they haven't clued into the fact that their driver seat isn't a hermetically sealed room. They are breathing the same disgusting air as the rest of us.
It is definitely an occupational safety issue and they should be issued fit tested N95s. But I also think that community transmission is such that there would be many drivers off sick anyway.