so many people be coughin at airports now. you masking up?

[Anonymous]

I really never mask anymore but I wore a mask on the plane for our winter break trip to Hawaii because I just wanted to minimize chances of getting sick on the trip. I did not mask on the way home.

Really - the bigger risk was my own family but somehow I managed not to get sick from them either (husband and son).

[Anonymous]

Mask. Don’t mask. Can we just end these stupid threads?

[Anonymous]

No. We recently went through some massive domestic airports and I didn't hear much coughing at all. We are diligent about hand washing.

[Anonymous]

Just got back from vacation. I didn't mask on the flight out but came down with covid while on the trip so I wore a mask on the plane home. I'd have done the same even if it wasn't covid, just cold/flu. It's just considerate to mask when you are sick in a crowded place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hearing so many nasty, wet coughs while traveling internationally. I started maskignnagain, and I'm not even a germaphobe. I just don't want to ruin a trip with an upper respiratory infection. But it sounds so bad now. You masking up in airports and planes?

At airports and on the plane, yes, I mask. Don't care what anyone else does, I don't trust any of the public to not travel while sick or still contagious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I flew today and someone was vomiting on our flight. I’d bring a mask and sanitizer. It is nasty.

this happened last week to us and the flight attendant passed out masks to everyone around--I assumed for the smell than anything else (parent said it was motion sickness but who knows).

Sure she did. And everyone clapped.

Us flight attendants want nothing to do with these gd masks anymore. Passing them out is just asking for trouble for the FA. If someone wants to wear them, including a flight attendant, that's their choice, but we do not pass them out and I highly doubt this scenario happened.

What possible incentive would I have to make this story up? I'm not some crazy masking forever person. The kid was literally in the row with my 78 year old mother as well as her own mother across from me, and also behind my nephew. Another flight attendant gave my nephew free booze because of him literally getting puked on from behind. All beverage service ended with my nephew's row bc it was such a time consuming mess for the flight attendants to deal with....because that kid's sibling, sitting two rows back from the puker with her father, ALSO starting puking at the SAME TIME. Apparently they both have motion sickness that had been discovered on their Disney cruise over Christmas week and this was the flight back home. Delta, MCO-DCA. They were black disposable masks.
Enough detail for ya??

[Anonymous]

Yes. KN95s are a great tool that were simply not on my radar before the pandemic. I’ve also been masking on public transportation in NYC- it’s disgusting.

pre masks, a person with a disgusting cough was standing over me hacking away while I sat on the subway, and two days later I was severely ill with the flu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the need to ask? You are free to do what you like! Mask if you want, don’t if you don’t.

I know. Weird how people crowdsource their health to DCUM!

Yes, I mask on planes. Especially this time of year.

Asians have been doing it for years. They did not consult with other countries to make sure it would not look silly.

[Anonymous]

As someone who got COVID during an expensive tour in Europe(and was consequently excluded from subsequent activities and transportation options provided by the tour), I would suggest you do all that you can to stay healthy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Masks do not work. They might help if you commit to not eating or drinking anything when you are in public but during the Spanish Flu it was shown to be ineffective even among people who were extremely diligent mask wearers.

“Epidemiological and Statistical Data, US Navy, 1918,” Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Surgeon General, US Navy, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) 434.

Although the Surgeon General of the US Navy acknowledged that wearing masks by hospital staff was good practice, “the morbidity rate, nevertheless, was very high among those attending the sick,” and may only have prevented infection from a direct, close hit from a cough or sneeze of a patient. The protocols followed in the contagious annex of the US Naval Hospital in Annapolis, MD, were sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of “cerebro-spinal fever” (aka meningitis), diphtheria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and German measles. Not so with influenza. In fact, the infection rate of staff was as high in the high-protocol wards as in the improvised hospitals. In one improvised hospital at the Navy Training Station in Great Lakes, IL., the infection rate was higher among those corpsmen and volunteers who wore masks than those who did not!

https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2020/05/23/did-masks-work-the-1918-flu-pandemic-and-the-meaning-of-layered-interventions/

Mask technology has improved quite a bit since the Spanish Flu

But nothing improved in 2020, but y'all act like these magical masks are a forcefield. Just because you didn't get sick on a plane when you masked doesn't mean it "worked".

I keep a rock on my desk to keep the elephants away. I've never seen an elephant yet. Therefore, the rock must work!

Come back to me when you know anything about the SCiENCE of disease transmission. Not your opinions and anecdotes.

While you are trying to educate yourself (not that a person like you would conduct research beyond Fox News), brush up on large droplets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not masking.

Do you mask on Metro? I mean, it’s not better to take the train or bus around DC. If you’re not masking here, why would that change at the airport?

I don't ride Metro or bus. I do mask on the mass transit that I use, which is mostly planes.

I don't mask in crowded social situations, like parties or church, because those face to face interactions are important to me. If I'm sick or worried about being sick, I don't attend. Otherwise, it's worth the risk. Going maskless on a plane is not worth the risk in the same way.

As for why I didn't mask before 2020 - I just never thought about it! But I don't need to double down on not doing it, just because I didn't think of it earlier.

[Anonymous]

OP you are smart. We didn’t mask on our recent vacation despite people coughing like crazy all around us. Well, sure enough, we caught Covid (for the first time ever). It ruined our vacation!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mask any longer and rarely see anyone on a plane with a mask. Maybe like 3-4 people per flight. (I’m a frequent flyer)

If you saw my family (3 of us) with masks on a recent flight back to DCA it’s because we had Covid. You should be thankful people like us are wearing masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Masks do not work. They might help if you commit to not eating or drinking anything when you are in public but during the Spanish Flu it was shown to be ineffective even among people who were extremely diligent mask wearers.

“Epidemiological and Statistical Data, US Navy, 1918,” Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Surgeon General, US Navy, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) 434.

Although the Surgeon General of the US Navy acknowledged that wearing masks by hospital staff was good practice, “the morbidity rate, nevertheless, was very high among those attending the sick,” and may only have prevented infection from a direct, close hit from a cough or sneeze of a patient. The protocols followed in the contagious annex of the US Naval Hospital in Annapolis, MD, were sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of “cerebro-spinal fever” (aka meningitis), diphtheria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, and German measles. Not so with influenza. In fact, the infection rate of staff was as high in the high-protocol wards as in the improvised hospitals. In one improvised hospital at the Navy Training Station in Great Lakes, IL., the infection rate was higher among those corpsmen and volunteers who wore masks than those who did not!

https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2020/05/23/did-masks-work-the-1918-flu-pandemic-and-the-meaning-of-layered-interventions/

Oh sure, let me quote this study from the early 1900s, that’ll convince people! 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hearing so many nasty, wet coughs while traveling internationally. I started maskignnagain, and I'm not even a germaphobe. I just don't want to ruin a trip with an upper respiratory infection. But it sounds so bad now. You masking up in airports and planes?

Yup. Was this a drunk post?