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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's annoying, but as others have said - you can't control it.  I always mask when I fly because that is something I can control.[/quote]

+1. That includes when we are lining up for the flight. [/quote]

Yes, the plane itself has better filtration when flying than the terminal (though easier to distance there), jetbridge, or the plane when taxiing.[/quote]

I took my Aranet on a few flights and found the same. Was egregiously high, like 1900! Air travel, from what I’ve seen, is a main driver of Covid

This is not true. The plane filtration being good is a myth [/quote]

+1 Took the ARANET CO2 detector on a few flights.  Sitting in row 3 (first class, near the open door) it was hovering at 800-1000 during boarding. Once the door shut, it never went below 1800.  Most of flight it was between 3000-4500 (peak was 4500).  
The pilots do have the option to provide "good filtered air" but apparently most do not do that (based on my limited tests).  [/quote][/quote]

I took my Aranet on a few flights and found the same. Was egregiously high, like 1900! Air travel, from what I’ve seen, is a main driver of Covid

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Which is sad, because it can be done safely with better filtration and masking.

Air filtration works.  Kid just brought covid home for xmas.  Was with them in small apartment for 36 hours before they tested positive (very high viral loads on first test).  Isolated them immediate (in hotel room, apartment too small), put hepa filter in hotel room and we both masked if in their room (to bring food/supplies/etc).  Nobody in our house got covid, despite spending 36 hours in close quarters together---sure we were all boosted in Oct/Nov, but the main thing I suspect was the HEPA filters running in the apartment---I mean I sat at dinner, 3 ft from my kid for 2 hours right before they tested positive. Nobody got covid.  
Now imagine if stores, restaurants, schools, airports, airplanes, and many other places had good quality hepa filtration.   Even places that had it have removed it "because covid protocols don't require it anymore"---our dentist actually removed their HEPA filters this fall---which I cannot understand once you spent to put them in, why not just run them to keep your employees safe---I mean you are less than 1 ft from a maskless, open mouth for 30 mins while cleaning their teeth. Seems only logical that you'd want to keep using them to protect everyone in your office.  
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