With the air circulation system of the sleeper car, does closing a roomette door help at all to control the spread of the virus?
And also remember that aerosols are a secondary mode of delivery of the virus. You need to be far more worried about getting droplets from an infected person. So you should be more worried about maskless people singing or yelling in your face than about a minor contribution of aerosols slipping into the HVAC.
There are no sleeper cars available for travel within the NEC, so it really doesn't address the relative risk of flying vs. taking the train for NEC trips.
I don't have a current TT, but I read somewhere that Amtrak has removed the restriction on corridor travel from long distance trains...so maybe you could book a sleeper, at least between NYC and Washington....
You can do it but only going south coming north Alexandria is the last boarding station - after arriving at WAS the trains just discharge passengers and depart as soon as they are ready without accepting passengers and if they are early they don't wait for the scheduled time on the timetable. If your northbound train gets into Washington on time you have a reasonable chance of getting into NYC early.
Okay, that makes sense...thanks.
Doesn't that sum up this year perfectly.
It's been on the News for Months, Masks work to protect you and me!
So far as I am aware the US was the one and only country advising its citizens to not wear masks and even that was for a reason other than established efficacy. Our lack of planning and delayed response resulted in a shortage of protective equipment like medical grade masks for first responders and ICU's. Rather than explain this in a way adults can understand (but that might make their bosses in the administration look bad) the government instead told us we don't need masks and incurious people who struggle with details interpreted this to mean that masks cannot help them.
Had we not disbanded the pandemic response team and instead reacted to growing evidence of a serious threat in a timely fashion we could have stockpiled the equipment and test kits we needed ahead of time. The US was in the enviable position of a delayed first wave but instead of using that time wisely we wasted it telling our citizens the pandemic was both a harmless hoax and a vast global conspiracy aligned against us.
Democracies are weak and fragile structures that require constant vigilance to protect and normalizing genuine threats with false equivalency rug-sweeping is a dangerous game that ignores history and puts our future at risk.
