Grand River Transit

[danbrotherston]

Using the word filthy does not express that, yes, that is probably what they meant, but it is not what they said.  The word choice seems intentional, wrt to transit.

Not sure if that was referring to me, though I believe it was. When I said 'filthy' I meant it in a cleanliness context. I have two children, both older teens now, but one has a clean room, the other's room is filthy.

Definition of filthy: "disgustingly dirty"

And in this situation, I meant it as what Tom though: higher likelihood of cobvid-19 transmission than a single-person (or family) private car. I in NY City they believe the high rate of covid-19 and the high death toll may be partially blamed on the high demand on public transit.

In my kids case, the one disinfects her room 5x a day. The other, that's my job when I have the time. If covid-19 were to exist in this house, I know who to blame.

I do suppose you could use the word 'filthy' in the context of what some non-hybrid busses spew out. But that's not what I meant. Having spent a lot of time in Toronto and using the subway and street cars primarily, they spew nothing out, so generally I don't look at transit as being filthy from an environmental point of view.

Given that I ride transit, I can tell you, "filthy" is not the appropriate term to use for it.

It's a public place, and as far as public places go, I'd describe it as, cleaner than average.

I have no idea why you're brining your kids into this, and suggesting that one would be to blame for COVID...the spreading is largely through person to person contact.  If your one child obsessively santized their room 5x per day, but still hung out in close proximity with other people, and the other never cleaned anything, but never went within 50 feet of another person, you'd be blaming the wrong one.