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There are people still trying to get home, this is a crucial service for them and specialists who are required around the world to keep things running.
by kalium-xyz 7y ago
There are people still trying to get home, this is a crucial service for them and specialists who are required around the world to keep things running.
- Tepix 7y agoTFA talks about hourly flights. Getting home is not the issue.
- monkpit 7y agoTFA?
- opwieurposiu 7y agoThe Featured Article or The F*ing article
- monkpit 7y agoWow, that seems aggressive
- Zhyl 7y agoIt's a convention (a meme?), along the lines of "read the manual" being rendered as "RTFM". In online discourse it is common for people to ask questions or make statements without reading the reference material being discussed. This is frustrating to other commenters who feel that a lot of the discussion is needless and effectively off-topic. Hence the aggression in the acronym is partly a joke that this is such a common occurrence that the expletive itself is part of the acronym. It's definitely not meant to be taken personally. Mostly.
- googlexa1 7y agoThe word fucking? or featured? Remember they're only words... snowflakes will melt
- nemosaltat 7y agoHuh, I’ve always read it as The Full Article- as opposed to just the headline, or a quick skim.
- ggambetta 7y agoThe F* Article (for example, "fine").
- dkersten 7y agoI understand the desire to get home, but, doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose if quarantine? The virus doesn’t care that you’re not at home.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoPeople still gotta live, and if they weren't planning on it, they probably won't have the resources to extend overseas trips indefinitely. In any case, in Canada all travellers are required to self-isolate for two weeks upon arrival.
- standardUser 7y agoThe "whole purpose" of lockdowns are to reduce the transmission rate to a manageable level. Not to zero. Broad but imperfect compliance has proven to be more than sufficient to achieve this. Many nations are now loosening restrictions because the transmission rate has been pushed so low that there is room to increase it without overwhelming healthcare capacity.
- Zhyl 7y agoYes, to put this in perspective, each person has 'x' transmission opportunities on every journey to/from their lockdown base. 'x' can be expressed as 'x = n + m' for n people they would meet along their journey plus m people that have interacted and potentially infected every surface they touch. n and m are smaller for every journey not taken. MUCH smaller if people are broadly compliant with lockdown. Therefore, even people breaking lockdown (justifiably or unjustifiably) are at reduced risk of transmission if other people are obeying lockdown.