Coffee time, cradle.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:22 amIf your worried about planes you should talk with my oldest son. He is a Federal Air Marshall. You know what they deal with everyday, especially on overseas flights? They deal with the understanding that bad people are trying non stop to blow these planes up in mid air. You would be most disconcerted if you knew just how close they are getting to be able to accomplish that. Covid is something to be concerned about. Being blown up in a plane at 35,000 feet is more of a threat than you realize.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:07 pmI understood it.CU88 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:07 pmEverything is political in your world view.Nigel wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:48 amIs that good news or bad news to you on both items?CU88 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:39 am BREAKING NEWS: On Thursday, June 11th, 502,209 people came through @TSA security checkpoints nationwide. It marked the first time the traveler count surpassed a half million since March 21st. One year ago, 2,675,686 travelers were screened at checkpoints across the country.
My son-in-law took a early morning flight from DCA to MSP yesterday and said that the flight was 100% full!!!!!!!!!!
Glass half full - travelers are returning, first time TSA # over half a million in 2+ mos.
Glass half empty - travelers staying away, only 20% thru TSA vs one year ago.
Glass half full - early morning flight booked full, airlines recovering.
Glass half empty - son-in-law's flight was full and he was what? Upset he had a seat neighbor? Upset he might be more likely to get CV19? What?
Are you blaming Trump for this or not? Everything else is his fault in your world.
Planes are inherently not safe at this point for anyone who is in a high risk group or who is going to come in contact with those in a high risk group, and full planes are begging for accelerated transmission rates. Bad for all the rest of us.
My family and I want to get on a plane in late July. I've been hoping that airlines will institute procedures that greatly reduce transmission risk. I'm willing to pay double or triple to have that be the case.
But will airlines do so?
Sounds like no, they're just going to wing it.
None of that is about politics.
We were talking about COVID risk, packed plane.
Not sure how the threat of a bomb is related to COVID, but rest assured, I'm glad that we have Air Marshalls and all sorts of technologies and other measures to reduce that risk. No denial here that such risk remains real. Yet thankfully, it's quite rare to actually happen as a result of those preventive efforts. Much more likely at this point to have a ground to air attack, and way, way, way more likely to have an equipment failure or pilot error disaster.
None of those has nearly the much greater likelihood of contracting COVID on a packed plane during the COVID pandemic. Now, if you are a young person without other risk factors and know that you will not be near those who are more vulnerable, it may well be a risk you decide is 'safe' enough for you.
But for all of us who have substantial negative risks or who will definitely be with others who are vulnerable?