Can you imagine the lawsuits if we were to have staff push people here? [this video] By the way, as bad as things are in New York MTA, I find it much better than the stupidity of the path train (panynj). We have like four routes to manage and we can't do that properly.
Shows staff pushing commuters onto crowded Tokyo trains
Most people commute by train. We are improving, but the morning commute is something foreigners consider particularly wacky, and not something that they want to repeat everyday. [this video]
It would need testing to show they don't have a prevalence of "mild" cases. Not to mention we should have numbers on how often they wear masks. Last I saw, it was not everyone that did that. Edit for reference: [this video]
Shows crowded Japanese trains in a debate about mask usage
Japan has also been known to cram passengers into trains during rush hour. I imagine this practice has probably been fervently deprecated due to covid19. [this video]
Example of Japan cramming passengers into trains at rush hour
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