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There’s Less Than 1% Chance of Catching Covid-19 Flying, Says Airline Exec
Executives from four major U.S. airlines share thoughts on blocked middle seats, the future of business travel, and the issues that’ll affect flying beyond the pandemic. (www.bloomberg.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
It's not possible to believe it's just marketing. Tell that to the families and loved ones who have died from this hideous virus. Believe - don't believe - what do you believe it hurts to just wear a freaking mask, and do what is being recommended? The alternative is too too much to accept.
How is this even measured ?
The article states less than 1 percent not 1 percent. It could be .001 percent so difficult to determine odds of catching virus. The CDC mentions a a potential of 11000 passengers exposed to the virus but this takes data from very early on when planes were full and no protection was used. I would like to see data from the last 3 months when protection was implemented and flights were not full. I also would like to see any data on flight crews who have documented Covid infection attributed to flying.
There's less than 0.2% chance you'll get the virus at all.
And, there's less than 0.06% you'd die from it. And, that's based on the "208,000" being bandied about by the media and not even close to accounting for all the false reporting that was incentivized by the idiots in Congress.
Remove all the underlying health conditions that could complicate influenza or other illness and that chance of death drops to 0.0054%.
On an airliner, you're going to be in one of the healthiest environments possible where air turnover is four to six times that of most any commercial building with roughly half of that air being fresh each hour from engine bleed. The only potentially cleaner environment is a lab where they make integrated circuits using not only HEPA 14 filters but also laminar air flow on the benches (I used to work in one where I wore a "bunny suit").
Now, for the mask idiocy... if you sneeze or cough on an airliner while wearing a mask, it won't go forward with all of it contained by the mask. That pressure is going to be relieved... to each side of the mask and right into the face of those next to you.
Never mind that if the standard for masks were applied to pilots, we'd have more crashes than the results of toddlers driving bumper cars. There is no standard for masks. And, not one single test I've read for masks applies real world use. They're unrealistic.
Trump did not call the virus a hoax. But, I will. Most certainly, the political handling of the virus is a hoax. They destroyed at $22.5 Trillion economy and put forty million people out of work. By the way, about $1.7 Trillion is just from the airline industry and about forty percent of the roughly 700,000 airline employees are still out of work. There's about 16,000 airliners still sitting in storage around the world and more than two dozen of the world's airlines have filed for bankruptcy protection just for operations within the United States. Several have ceased operations entirely never to return.
Yes, it's a hoax. Let the bashing begin.
And, there's less than 0.06% you'd die from it. And, that's based on the "208,000" being bandied about by the media and not even close to accounting for all the false reporting that was incentivized by the idiots in Congress.
Remove all the underlying health conditions that could complicate influenza or other illness and that chance of death drops to 0.0054%.
On an airliner, you're going to be in one of the healthiest environments possible where air turnover is four to six times that of most any commercial building with roughly half of that air being fresh each hour from engine bleed. The only potentially cleaner environment is a lab where they make integrated circuits using not only HEPA 14 filters but also laminar air flow on the benches (I used to work in one where I wore a "bunny suit").
Now, for the mask idiocy... if you sneeze or cough on an airliner while wearing a mask, it won't go forward with all of it contained by the mask. That pressure is going to be relieved... to each side of the mask and right into the face of those next to you.
Never mind that if the standard for masks were applied to pilots, we'd have more crashes than the results of toddlers driving bumper cars. There is no standard for masks. And, not one single test I've read for masks applies real world use. They're unrealistic.
Trump did not call the virus a hoax. But, I will. Most certainly, the political handling of the virus is a hoax. They destroyed at $22.5 Trillion economy and put forty million people out of work. By the way, about $1.7 Trillion is just from the airline industry and about forty percent of the roughly 700,000 airline employees are still out of work. There's about 16,000 airliners still sitting in storage around the world and more than two dozen of the world's airlines have filed for bankruptcy protection just for operations within the United States. Several have ceased operations entirely never to return.
Yes, it's a hoax. Let the bashing begin.
So, three people vote down my comment yet have no substantive contrast to what I presented.
Go figure.
Go figure.
Oh heck, let's make it four.
Nice try. It's been turned around to only two voted down.
Better yet, what is the chance an infected person is sitting next to you, in front, or behind you.
Where is the CDC rule for 6 feet separation
These are "thoughts" NOT informed by science - stop with the marketing