Texas reopens to 100%, rescinds mask mandate
04-10-2021, 05:21 PM
#924
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I have to ask. Do you think if those two pilots wore a mask the whole time they were in that enclosed cockpit, sitting inches from each other, and repeatedly touching the same surfaces for several hours that the first pilot wouldn’t infect the second pilot?
04-10-2021, 05:26 PM
#926
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I do. When hospitals instituted universal masking it led to a decrease in cases. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768533 I don’t see why the same couldn’t apply to pilots. Obviously not all would be prevented. But many possibly. And I think it is completely doable to wear a mask in the flight deck. I’ve had no problems with communicating or flying or seeing or anything. So I don’t think it could hurt.
04-10-2021, 05:26 PM
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For those of you that are airline pilots you can do a little experiment at home. Check your union email and compare covid cases between pilots and flight attendants. My airline has 46% more pilots with covid than flight attendants. So you have people with similar jobs and lifestyles and even though FAs are in closer and longer proximity with many more people, they have fewer cases. The main difference? They are always masked back there with passengers that are masked. And most pilots rip theirs off as soon as they sit down in the flight deck. Most of our cases are attributed to pilot to pilot transmission.
04-10-2021, 05:31 PM
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I find it ironic that your are supposedly a former crop duster. So you flew one of the most dangerous jobs in the world and you are nutted up about mask and a virus with a 99.9% survival rate. Unusual risk management you seem to have. Either you are lying about being a pilot or don’t seem to understand risk management and mitigation.
04-10-2021, 05:31 PM
#930
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