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> Ps: every single person boarding a plane for non urgent reasons is an idiot. Period.

12 months ago I'd have agreed. But we're past the 2 year mark now. We have the jabs, we have better treatments, we have ubiquitous testing, and omicron seems milder.

At some point life needs to go on. Choose your own risks based upon your individual situation.


It would be more like telling everyone to drive only at lunch and tea time because some people drink and drive. Look, I don’t get offended by people who wear masks or anything like that. But I got covid from a plane while wearing a mask, and I haven’t seen a peer reviewed paper that says the blue ones we use everywhere are worth anything. That in addition to the behaviors of 80% of the mask wearers on a plane… might as well remove the fake sense of security and let me have a pleasant 9h flight without my ears feeling like they are about to fall off.

I’m vaccinated, I’ll be tested by the time I get on the plane, so will everyone else (unless they fake a test, which is very easy), so I think my risk is the same risk I had of getting the flu before the pandemic.


You no longer need a test to get on a plane to the UK, from most countries


Your postscript has so business on this forum.

You are blatantly projecting your own beliefs on to others, and assuming anyone who doesn’t align is an idiot. That is backwards, childish reasoning, and I bet you don’t usually resort to that type of thing. Why in this case?


> Ps: every single person boarding a plane for non urgent reasons is an idiot. Period.

Why?




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