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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just got back from Europe and I’d say 1 in 10 people were masking. I wore one and am glad I did, the guy next to me was sneezing and coughing. I used to get sick after travel but masking helps me. [/quote]

I spent two weeks in Germany and Denmark over the Thanksgiving holidays and returned last weekend. I'd estimate in public no more than 1 out of 50 may still be masking and most were Asian tourists (and even most Asian tourists aren't masking). On planes it was maybe 2 or 3 people masking out of the entire flight. Four flights involved. None of the airline staff are masking. Fewer people are masking in Germany and Denmark than in Washington.

If none of the airline staff are masking that tells me wearing masks on planes doesn't make a difference in whether you get sick or not. [/quote]

Tell us how dumb you are [/quote]

It doesn't help to call other people dumb. But the poster did raise an interesting point. If people are at higher risk of getting COVID or even other viruses on planes, then why aren't airline staff or airport staff masking? Because they don't. And they're in that tiny tube all the time, which you'd think would substantially increase the risks of getting COVID.

I can see the logic in thinking that we're crowded cheek by jowel on these flying tubes therefore we're at a higher risk of viruses including colds. But I'm not sure if that is entirely true. I do remember some talk in the early days of COVID how no outbreaks was traced to a flight itself.

Given that people still get COVID and flus and colds without travel and there's no data showing you're more likely to get it while traveling, the ultimate conclusion is that you wear covid masks to make yourself feel better, so there is an element of theatre about it.[/quote]

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