Comments by "Panama Fred" (@panamafred1) on "DW News"
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@MrKolozal Not sure if you are serious, but It is sold over the counter, intended for humans, around the world including here in Panama. It saved the life of our obese, high BP, asthmatic, diabetic housekeeper. She was diagnosed with Kovid and was turning blue waiting for a hospital bed. She took it one day and was out of bed the next. Ten days later she was back to normal. Billions of doses have been given to humans around the world for 40 years or so. Very few side effects. Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter's Carter Center uses it to cure River Blindness in Brazil, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, and Venezuela. Now you know. Have a good day.
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Transportation can't be studied in a vacuum. If city planners transform cities to have walkable/bikeable neighborhoods that combine street level businesses, with a number of floors of offices above, and residential housing above that, then less public transportation will be needed. And given the future of online work and online shopping, then we can function without nearly as much public transportation. Even ride-sharing or car-sharing is problematic from a sanitary perspective and from the need to have more roadways. With more centralized and self-sustaining neighborhoods, in a way, we would be returning to our history of smaller tribes. There are many benefits to having smaller tribes.
If cities don't change and mass transportation is still needed at the current rate, and social distancing is promoted to make public transportation safer, then a transit capacity of several magnitudes would have to be provided -- more transit vehicles, more frequency, more sanitation workers to clean the vehicles, more energy usage, and etc. Add to all of this the sprawling high density growth of cities due to significant future population growth (have you seen the size of some of the cities in China?), and I don't see mass transit being viable unless cities change their live/work/play structure.
I'm thinking about this not because I live in a city (I don't, I live remotely in the mountains), or because I am a city planner (I'm not). I'm thinking about this because I am a model railroader. I would like to build a new layout that models a future green city. This morning, I asked myself the questions, "Is transit rail dead?" "What will transportation be like in future cities?" I'm watching numerous YouTube videos about city planning for the future and although I want to model light rail, subways, elevated trains and the like, I just don't see the need for nearly as much rail in well-planned future green cities. Great. What a dilemma. A model railroader with no railroad to model.
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