Risk of COVID-19 exposure on
planes 'virtually nonexistent'
when masked, study shows
ABC News,
by
Gio Benitez
&
Sam Sweeney
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
10/15/2020 4:09:25 PM
United Airlines says the risk of COVID-19 exposure onboard its aircraft is "virtually non-existent" after a new study finds that when masks are worn there is only a 0.003% chance particles from a passenger can enter the passenger's breathing space who is sitting beside them.
The study, conducted by the Department of Defense in partnership with United Airlines, was published Thursday. They ran 300 tests in a little over six months with a mannequin on a United plane.(Snip) Last week, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) released new research, saying the risk of contracting the virus on a plane
Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 10/15/2020 4:24:42 PM (No. 573608)
Those masks aren't protection against virons. Period. Full stop.
If they were, virologists studying airborne viruses wouldn't need to wear positive pressure BSL-4 suits in order to avoid getting infected.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 10/15/2020 4:27:46 PM (No. 573613)
I have flown a great many times without a mask, never got sick.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 10/15/2020 4:49:38 PM (No. 573646)
My risk of getting sick on a United flight is 0.0%, because I wouldn't fly United even for a Soros bribe.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 10/15/2020 4:57:15 PM (No. 573657)
A lot of junk gets breathed in during flights. People sneeze, hack, and cough all the time, throwing God knows what out there. Kids are the worse vectors because they do not cover their mouths when they cough or sneeze. So maybe, it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to wear a mask voluntarily. Not as a mandate.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JL80863 10/15/2020 5:01:55 PM (No. 573666)
I don't believe it for a second. Everything said about this pandemic is conflicted. Everything.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/15/2020 5:06:35 PM (No. 573671)
Apply any antiseptic cream on yours nostrils as you would Vicks Vaporub. Give you far better protection.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/15/2020 5:27:00 PM (No. 573700)
How much does this information have to do with the fact that the airlines are losing billions of dollars? I don't fly regardless but having a couple of hundred people sitting side by side is a petri dish no matter what you wear on your face. I call additional BS on the BS that has been created thus far..
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Notice how they didn't provide the results for no masks. Wouldn't that be a useful comparison for this article? Or do the results show roughly the same with or without masks?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
padiva 10/15/2020 6:14:23 PM (No. 573740)
I'm more concerned about the germs on the folding trays, ice, blankets, pillows, arm rests, handles etc.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/15/2020 6:17:30 PM (No. 573743)
No mention of headaches caused by wearing a mask, however. Not looking forward to wearing a mask most of the day when I eventually fly back to New York. If the airlines want to get back to normal, they need to drop the mask mandate and make them strictly voluntary.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 10/15/2020 7:57:41 PM (No. 573887)
The air in modern aircraft cabins is replaced with new fresh air every two to three minutes, and most planes are fitted with air filters designed to trap 99.99% of particles. Protection against COVID-19 cannot be attributed solely to wearing masks unless there are tests on planes that do not have these filters.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 10/15/2020 8:33:20 PM (No. 573927)
So when everybody is wearing masks, they say that your chances of inhaling Covid are 3 in 100,000. (That is, 0.003%)
And they say that before everybody was wearing masks, your chances were about 4 out of 100,000,000. (That is, 44 sick travelers out of 1.2 billion.)
Sounds like a real improvement!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 10/16/2020 12:52:32 AM (No. 574104)
The article provides no evidence on masks effectiveness. The article credits air exchanges.
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Masks probably don't matter one way or the other, and yet you can be packed shoulder-to-shoulder for hours in a confined space and there's minuscule risk of catching the Chinese plague. Trust the science, they say.