> Pat downs and dirty shared bins are certainly vectors for transmission, and should stop. At very, very least, there needs to be a mandate that shoes never go

> Pat downs and dirty shared bins are certainly vectors for transmission, and should stop. At very, very least, there needs to be a mandate that shoes never go in the bins. (Or just end the shoe part of security theater, but I'd like a pony too.) The last security line I went through was requiring them to go in the bins, and seeing people stuff the shoes they've been tramping around the city all week in next to their scarves was vaguely nauseating.