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You can drive to, and stay in, a cabin with at most incidental interaction with other people. A seven hour sightseeing flight on an airliner is... not like that
by tesseract 6y ago
You can drive to, and stay in, a cabin with at most incidental interaction with other people. A seven hour sightseeing flight on an airliner is... not like that.
I suppose it makes more sense in Australia where the coronavirus prevalence is fairly low at the moment, but from my point of view in the US the idea of taking the risk of getting on a plane right now seems especially crazy if I don't even get to land somewhere interesting.
- Hydraulix989 6y agoPlanes are low risk for coronavirus spread because of the filtered air that is replaced every 2-3 minutes. CNN: The odds of catching Covid-19 on an airplane are slimmer than you think, scientists say https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/odds-catching-covid-19-flight-wellness-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/odds-catching-covid-19-fl...
- 5555624 6y agoMaybe not that slim, as CNN just reported: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/health/coronavirus-airline-transmission-studies/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/health/coronavirus-airline-tr...
- tyingq 6y ago"When the woman left London on March 1, she had a sore throat and cough as she boarded a flight home to Vietnam, but no one noticed. By the time she got off the flight in Hanoi 10 hours later, 15 other people who had been on the plane with her were infected." Wow. 15. It does say March, so perhaps masks weren't in broad use? Still, though, 15 is a lot.