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LaSevillana · 12/10/2022 12:15
WhenISnappedAndFarted · 12/10/2022 11:47
I'm due to travel to Spain next week for the first time since 2019, I'm CEV and I've have really got to go before a terminally ill family member passes away. Threads like these terrify me.
Pollydon · 12/10/2022 10:26
I've got a family member who is CEV flying over on Saturday, threads like this make my blood run cold. I lost my dad to Covid in February. Are people really so selfish?
Wear an FFP3 mask for the entire flight. Put a new, clean one on on the tarmac right before you board the plane and make sure the nose strip is perfectly sealed. Don't take it off at all during the entire flight, not even to sip water. Don't eat on the plane. This won't be 100% but it will be highly effective.
Also, try to get a window seat. This will mean less exposure to others than if you're in an aisle seat with people standing over you trying to get their bags out and waiting for the loo or whatever.
You cannot rely on other people. Most people are either incredibly selfish or incredibly thick (often both) and don't give a flying fuck about others. You can only take every possible measure to protect yourself. You need to assume everyone around you could well have Covid and act accordingly.
worriedatthistime · 12/10/2022 12:16
Do people realjSe some work places make you go in with covid as long as your well , places you will all be going too
They need to re think the measures as they only exsist for those of us that feel obliged to feel guilty
Basically if you don't test and don't have a temp it says continue of you do test stay home 5 days etc
I am on my 3rd bout of covid in a year and having to be off work sick, so will now get pulled in so prob won't test anymore
Sallydimebar · 12/10/2022 12:18
I’m sure you could fine the information on-line of country’s requirements.
A friend’s daughter is currently in hospital hospital with septis brought on by having covid last week , she’s had it before and been fine . Was also doing ok for 5 days this time before things turned.
There’s passing it on when you’ve no idea but to pass it on when you know is just selfish
I’m lucky to know and surround myself with people who wouldn’t even have to ask the question , they just wouldn’t fly with a pos result .
wifeofaclosefriend · 12/10/2022 12:23
LaSevillana · 12/10/2022 11:26
And this is why I still wear FFP3 masks on planes. Because there's always some vile, selfish berk who is happy to infect a plane load of people so they can do what they want.
And also a plane full of people who have Covid but don't know 🤷🏽♀️
susan12345678 · 12/10/2022 12:23
I caught covid on a Trans-Atlantic flight a couple of weeks ago. There were a couple people nearby with very bad coughs who should not have been on a plane - and I only removed my mask to eat. So annoying.
It's interesting because I flew several times a month throughout the pandemic, and never caught covid in those two years. To be honest, I actually preferred it when the rules were stricter and people were forced to be responsible and to protect others.
When left to their own devices, so many people are incredibly selfish.
worriedatthistime · 12/10/2022 12:28
Also people can rarely say for sure where they caught covid
Do what if someone was coughing on the plane they may if tested and not had covid
Unless you have been to only one place you have no idea where you got it
If you have flown you have been in airport , on a plane , on holiday or break and likely out and about before hand
It doesn't have a set incubation period
My dh has covid now he has only been to work the last week or so but no one there appears to have it , 8:9 days ago he was out and about at various things so maybe he caught it and its taken this long or maybe someone at work had it no symptoms , its impossible to know for sure most if the time, unless going around your house
ClaudiaWankleman · 12/10/2022 12:30
susan12345678 · 12/10/2022 12:23
I caught covid on a Trans-Atlantic flight a couple of weeks ago. There were a couple people nearby with very bad coughs who should not have been on a plane - and I only removed my mask to eat. So annoying.
It's interesting because I flew several times a month throughout the pandemic, and never caught covid in those two years. To be honest, I actually preferred it when the rules were stricter and people were forced to be responsible and to protect others.
When left to their own devices, so many people are incredibly selfish.
You don't actually know where you caught it. It can incubate for quite a while. You could've caught in in the days either side of the flight, or on the way to or from the airport - it's probably just as likely that you caught it before or after the flight. There's no evidence that those people had Covid - we've all had a cough and a cold before.
AriettyHomily · 12/10/2022 12:31
susan12345678 · 12/10/2022 12:23
I caught covid on a Trans-Atlantic flight a couple of weeks ago. There were a couple people nearby with very bad coughs who should not have been on a plane - and I only removed my mask to eat. So annoying.
It's interesting because I flew several times a month throughout the pandemic, and never caught covid in those two years. To be honest, I actually preferred it when the rules were stricter and people were forced to be responsible and to protect others.
When left to their own devices, so many people are incredibly selfish.
You have no way to know you caught it from them
Sallydimebar · 12/10/2022 12:39
Doesn’t really matter where you catch it .
If you take time to do a test and that test comes back positive, you then decide to fly anyway YOU are selfish, doesn’t matter what everyone else is doing .
its not the law now but there’s being a decent person and trying to keep your distance not sitting on a plane for 3hrs+ spreading it even more .
pocketvenuss · 12/10/2022 12:47
susan12345678 · 12/10/2022 12:23
I caught covid on a Trans-Atlantic flight a couple of weeks ago. There were a couple people nearby with very bad coughs who should not have been on a plane - and I only removed my mask to eat. So annoying.
It's interesting because I flew several times a month throughout the pandemic, and never caught covid in those two years. To be honest, I actually preferred it when the rules were stricter and people were forced to be responsible and to protect others.
When left to their own devices, so many people are incredibly selfish.
You have absolutely no idea where you caught it. Many people are symptomless so to assume a couple of people coughing was the cause is very unscientific
Wetblanket78 · 12/10/2022 12:56
No you can't don't be so selfish. Just because your symptoms aren't too bad you might pass it on to someone who is asthmatic, diabetic, in remission from cancer or anyone who's vulnerable and won't survive. You need a negative test to fly anyway. What a stupid question.
TorviShieldMaiden · 12/10/2022 13:15
susan12345678 · 12/10/2022 12:23
I caught covid on a Trans-Atlantic flight a couple of weeks ago. There were a couple people nearby with very bad coughs who should not have been on a plane - and I only removed my mask to eat. So annoying.
It's interesting because I flew several times a month throughout the pandemic, and never caught covid in those two years. To be honest, I actually preferred it when the rules were stricter and people were forced to be responsible and to protect others.
When left to their own devices, so many people are incredibly selfish.
@susan12345678 my dad has a persistent cough, it doesn't sound any different from a covid type cough. Except its from Pulmonary Fibrosis. He gets all sorts fo stares and tuts when he goes out and about, despite actually being in the highest risk category and not having covid!
MimosaSunrise · 12/10/2022 13:19
There's no evidence that those people had Covid - we've all had a cough and a cold before.
I get the impression that some posters think that going on a plane with a cold would also be unacceptably selfish (comment above about travelling with infectious illnesses), which just goes to show how attitudes to risk and what is a proportionate response have gone out of the window. Yes, as someone who gets terrible chest infections with cold and flu, it was lovely to have two years without colds, but we couldn’t live with the restrictions and uncertainty that came with that forever.
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