For 3 days?
Who stole your blood?
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Take it with a grain of salt as it stills needs peer-review, but here is some promising data on the safety of airplane travel:
We use recent data and research results to approximate the probability that an air traveler in coach will contract Covid-19 on a US domestic flight two hours long, both when all coach seats are full and when all but middle seats are full. The point estimates we reach based on data from late June 2020 are 1 in 4,300 for full flights and 1 in 7,700 when middle seats are kept empty.
Perhaps @MrWookie was right and flying is NBD.
Alberta announced we have done more than 300,000 tests of asymptomatic people with a positive rate of only 0.01%. This suggests asymptomatic testing is not needed to find unknown cases. Kind of interesting.
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There are some bad assumptions in this paper:
(It is assumed the Q is small enough that having two or more contagious passengers near the uninfected one is a remote risk.)
The number of actual cases of Covit-19 in the US is a large multiple of the number of confirmed cases. However, asymptomatic carriers of the disease are considerably less contagious than pre-symptomatic and symptomatic ones, and air travelers are considerably less likely to be contagious than the citizenry as a whole.
All passengers are wearing masks, and masks are highly effective at preventing transmission of Covid-19.
An uninfected passenger is only threatened with Covid-19 by a contagious passenger sitting in the same row, the row ahead, or the row behind. Because of strong air-purification mechanisms on aircraft, the risks posed by other passengers are of secondary importance
Like, as an “estimate the number of piano tuners in NYC” type exercise, it’s probably not a bad estimate of the order of magnitude, but reporting two significant figures is malpractice.
I mean, look at this shit. Look at this shit right here:
Then one multiplies by a factor of ½ approximately to reflect of the premise that passengers who fly are generally more affluent (and less likely to encounter Covid-19 risks) than the citizenry at large. (This factor treats the half of the population less vulnerable to the disease as 1/3 as likely to suffer it as the half that is more vulnerable.It further treats air travelers as members of the less-vulnerable half.)
Like I always say - just replace with fart and you know how dangerous an airplane can be. I’ve had entire flights where I swear someone was just carpet bombing me from take off to landing. Or at least after meal time until landing.
Now - it’s pretty unlucky that the one person who can destroy you with farts happens to be asymptomatically shedding. But obviously it can happen.
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That’s nasty. Hydrogen sulfide molecules are much smaller than virus particles, which are much smaller than aerosol droplets though.
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Is this the first one that didn’t call it “potentially deadly COVID-19”?!?! Tone shift?!
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Air movement is air movement. There was no particle filter between me and the farter. Although I guess a mask might slow the dispersal of droplets.
Ran some errands for the first time in forever today.
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Microcenter. I ordered online for store pickup and while I heard they had curbside, I guess this location doesn’t, so I had to go in. Masks are required. If it’s too busy, they make people wait outside (it wasn’t too busy). A lady was inside the front door spraying hand sanitizer on everyone and she had a box of masks, which I’m guessing is to offer to those who didn’t have one. Markings on the floor for distancing. The one weakness was that the pickup line was right next to the exit and the regular checkout, so complete social distancing was impossible. It was all well-handled, though.
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Publix - Great. No problems. Everyone masked up. Not crowded, either, so while 100% social distancing in a grocery store is impossible, everything was comfortable. Oddly, they were completely out of paper towels, but well-stocked on toilet paper.
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Ace Hardware - impulse stop, as it was next to Publix and I realized I needed something. Masks weren’t required. Since it’s Ace, there weren’t many people there, but the stereotypical old Ace Hardware employee was maskless, one customer (who drove a Mazerati) had his down below his chin, and at least one other customer was maskless. I didn’t notice until I was in the checkout line, so I stayed. Fortunately, we weren’t on top of each other, despite the store being small.
Ace had tons of masks, even 50-count boxes of N95’s. And they had hand sanitizer, too, so I bought a liter bottle. Smells kind of bad, though.
Everyone just skip to 1:57 and prepare to laugh
Wat?
Air travelers are more likely to not take this seriously so shouldn’t be half as likely to get it as the general population.
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Paper towels have been in shorter supply than toilet paper for awhile and it’s getting worse.
I’ve been more excited to stock up on them than tp lately.
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It’s not the air you need to worry about.
blood gnomes
Holy shit
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Couldn’t have been anybody left to attend.