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In the city I live in, it is 90+ minutes of driving on average. Per employee. Per day.

I've had five mile commutes push toward 1/2 hour each way. Let's not forget the five minutes at each end walking from/to the parking lot. In the evening maybe even an extra 5 minutes or more to get out of the lot, depending on the job.

Plus commuting is terrible for the environment. Nobody discusses that either.

Especially in America, where the push for a return to office work seems to be the strongest.

Plenty of internet commenters discuss it.

For anybody who needs the citation for the above, UT Southwestern posts the “r” value trend chart on the last slide. Just under 1 is bad, 1.0 and over is in layman’s terms “still active transmission hopping to multiple people from 1 infected / potentially asymptomatic individual.

Every time r makes progress, it recedes. This does not please management because they can’t fire a virus or human herd stupidity as a collective.