Public transport is now a liability. It's almost certainly why NYC is a hotbed. I've been trying to drink less, but the stress doesn't help.
Detroit is weird, because only poor people take the bus. Literally everyone else drives. It's really jarring to a Detroiter when you go to another city where bus transportation is a normal means of travel. That is almost certainly a factor in transmission in Detroit, because the shitty old buses are super crowded. As I walked into the hospital yesterday, they were wheeling out an obviously incredibly sick old man on a gurney who was coughing underneath his mask. My first instinct was like, get him the fuck away from me. Then I regrouped and realized I was in a hospital, and I have it better than 99% of the rest of the people who work there, so I need to shut the fuck up and be grateful for the people who are in real danger. Gut reactions are hard to control, however.
One of Detroit's big problems is that the metro area comprises 3 counties and there isn't any regional authority. It's each county for itself. Wayne is where Detroit is. Oakland is where the money is. And Macomb is where the blue collar racists (oops, I mean "Reagan Democrats") are (I can say that because some of my best friends are blue collar racists). in 2016 we had a vote on a regional transit authority that could have changed the whole nature of public transportation around here. Wayne voted for it almost unanimously, because they want to be able to get to the jobs in Oakland. Oakland grudgingly voted for it, because white guilt is a thing. And Macomb voted against it, because, well they're Reagan Democrats. The measure lost by, ummm, almost the exact same margin as Trump's Michigan victory. Go figure. As an aside, I've been to LA many times, and it was like probably the 6th time I was there that I even realized they had a metro.