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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I picked up covid on a flight two weeks ago and I am still sick. I have done nothing but rest.

I haven't isolated the whole time but have tried to limit close exposures to avoid passing it on.

This is my third time having Covid and definitely the longest I have been sick. I have to fly again in a week. Airplanes are viral nightmares.

I think it is only respectful with any flu or virus to limit giving it to others as some people get taken down much harder than others and some don't have the resources to be off sick for days / weeks. Covid or not, if you are sick, stay home if you can until the contagion period is over. [/quote]

[b]I wear a mask on flights except when eating. [/b]The air is recirculated and not the cleanest. I should have masked on airplanes before COVID too.

[b]I’m not worried at the grocery where I’m continually moving,[/b] but I’ll consider wearing a mask anywhere I have to sit still for hours or at a doctor’s office. I was just in a doctor waiting room with two hacking people.

COVID almost killed me last year, and I was hospitalized despite being a healthy weight, reg blood pressure, etc. So, I’ll do what I want.

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I’m not bothered at all by people wearing masks, but I don’t understand this logic, and I think it’s things like this that fuel that mockery that some people engage in. Covid doesn’t care if you’re eating or moving quickly. If you’re going to mask, you kind of have to go all in for it to make sense. [/quote]

When Covid first hit, this was true. You kinda had to go all or nothing or just rely on luck not to get it if you were unmasked. But that has changed now that all of us have been exposed to Covid multiple times, gotten it, had vaccines, etc.

Our immune response is different now. We are constantly coming into contact with different bugs, Covid, flu, common cold, but not all of us walk around sick every time because our immune response works at different times. We were much more susceptible to Covid before our body had come in contact with it. Four years later, many of us are less susceptible. So yes if you come into contact at a grocery store when you’re not around the person for you long you can dodge it. Very different than sitting next to someone on a plane for three hours. 
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