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?

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/

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)

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?

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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!

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.

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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.

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?