Biohazard on my plane last night

[Mik]

@axtremus that would be an uncomfortable flight...

Sad.

[jon-nyc]

Interesting, Ax.

I have a friend who’s served 30 years as a United flight attendant. Much of it long haul. Someday I’ll ask her what she’s seen.

[Copper]


[Horace]

@copper said in Biohazard on my plane last night:


That is exactly how it is Copper. So much signaling and so little reality to our social distancing precautions for air travel. At least the masking precautions appear legit.

The complete abandonment of any pretense of distancing begins at the line to check your boarding pass, and doesn’t end till you step into your destination airport.

[taiwan_girl]

That reminded me of the story of some CEO who got really drunk on a flight to or from Brazil(?) and when the stopped giving him drinks, he got mad and pooped on the serving cart.

They charged him for the cleaning of the plane which was something like USD $50,000. I think he also got fired.

[jon-nyc]

@horace said in Biohazard on my plane last night:

So much signaling and so little reality to our social distancing precautions for air travel. At least the masking precautions appear legit.

It all seems like one thing, but the entity that controls the airport is not the airlines. They are capable of maintaining a safer environment than the airlines can and I’m not surprised they do so.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Biohazard on my plane last night:

@horace said in Biohazard on my plane last night:

So much signaling and so little reality to our social distancing precautions for air travel. At least the masking precautions appear legit.

It all seems like one thing, but the entity that controls the airport is not the airlines. They are capable of maintaining a safer environment than the airlines can and I’m not surprised they do so.

Yes of course the airport can do zero cost social distancing while the airlines cannot. The contrast remains absurd even in light of the obvious economic motives.

[jon-nyc]

I guess my point is it doesn’t follow that it’s just virtue signaling even though it looks somewhat silly when you consider what’s waiting for you on the other side of the jetway.

[Mik]

Less exposure is better even if you can't maintain it. There are a lot of diseased bastards people in the terminal that are not on your flight.

[Horace]

I am aware that zero cost distancing measures employed by businesses are of some positive epidemiological value. I am also aware that if that stuff starts costing business, it gets more interesting making a distinction between signal vs non signal.