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

[Anonymous]

I'll be masking on planes from now until my last ever flight. Plus using hand sanitizer and wipes. It's not just about covid--it's all the other germs people spread, especially during cold/flu season. My DH, who flies frequently for work, doesn't do this, and he predictably gets colds 1-2x a year during or shortly after his trips.

[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/

And masks have changed since 1918. They didn’t have N95s, N99s, or anything close 100 years ago.
It would be great — and much more useful— if you someone could provide a study with more current data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I hate this comment and I see it constantly on DCUM. Asia is a large area.

I am from an Asian country and I can guarantee you that we have not been masking ‘for years’. Honestly, during the height of Covid, it was even still difficult to get people in my country to wear masks.

Mask or don’t mask, makes no difference to me. Just please keep the nonsense stereotypes out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Untrue. "Asians" (omg) have not been masking on planes for years. I lived in an Asian country for years and traveled throughout Asia, leading up to right before COVID. No, there were not planefuls of masked individuals. That's a ridiculous assertion.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I plan to mask on planes from now on. Since masking, I haven't caught any of the viral travel illnesses I usually catch, so definitely masking on planes, in airports and on public transportation as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

Last week returning from Spain none of our flight attendants had on masks. Mid way through the flight a passenger started throwing up. They all put on masks after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

People have traveled when sick since the beginning of time. Wtf do you expect them to do? If you have to travel, you have to travel. But I’m sure you bring a whole batch of Covid tests with you when you travel and test daily. And if that test is positive (oh noes!!!), you’ll happily pay for more overpriced nights at a hotel room and a change fee or an expensive last minute flight change, along with missing work, just so you don’t travel while sick.

Sure you do…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Asians mask because of air pollution. Clearly you are repeating nonsense you read on the internet because if you’ve ever been there, you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I plan to mask on planes from now on. Since masking, I haven't caught any of the viral travel illnesses I usually catch, so definitely masking on planes, in airports and on public transportation as much as possible.

And what happens when you do get sick?? Because you will - you’re human. Masks do nothing. But keep on believing in your placebo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last week returning from Spain none of our flight attendants had on masks. Mid way through the flight a passenger started throwing up. They all put on masks after that.

And then everyone clapped!!! L O L

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I plan to mask on planes from now on. Since masking, I haven't caught any of the viral travel illnesses I usually catch, so definitely masking on planes, in airports and on public transportation as much as possible.

You can do what you want, but please don’t for the same to your kids. Kids (and adults) need exposure to germs so that it kept your immune system healthy and functioning.

Unless you are immunocompromised, it is healthy to expose yourself to some germs and viruses.

[Anonymous]

Was at BWI last week and they do not sell masks anymore at the shops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I plan to mask on planes from now on. Since masking, I haven't caught any of the viral travel illnesses I usually catch, so definitely masking on planes, in airports and on public transportation as much as possible.

You can do what you want, but please don’t for the same to your kids. Kids (and adults) need exposure to germs so that it kept your immune system healthy and functioning.

Unless you are immunocompromised, it is healthy to expose yourself to some germs and viruses.

The point is to avoid sickness during a trip, which can ruin the entire thing.

[Anonymous]

Our family masked flying back New Year's weekend - miraculously none of us got sick as every other person seemed to have something. Midway through our flight a child sitting a few rows in front of us had trouble breathing and the flight attendants asked a few times on the PA if there was any medical pros on board. When we landed EMTs cam on the plane and took her to an ambulance.

[Anonymous]

We got Covid twice in the house, both times my husband caught it while flying on a trip.

To the Pp Asians have never masked other than for SARS decades ago.