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Yay
Coronavirus: how to lower the risk of infection while flying – and remember, the air in aircraft cabins is much fresher than in your home or office https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3050706/coronavirus-how-lower-risk-infection-while-flying-and
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It’s something like 50/50 recycled and fresh air in a plane. And with some constant fresh air, it means the air inside the plane is completely refreshed a few times over an hour.
Apologies if this is what’s in the above link, I haven’t clicked it
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@starfish&coffee
Johan Giesecke of WHO claims that one should refrain from all non-essential air travel as you will be breathing recycled air for most of the flight, increasing the chance of inhaling someone else's germs. Mind you, this is not the official stance from WHO yet as far as I can tell.
Kind of feels relevant to me as I have an 11 hour admittedly non-essential flight coming up on Tuesday. I don't have any underlying conditions, but I have a slight sniffle as I write this so my immune might not be in tip top shape as I get on the flight.
I have no real fear of the Covid itself, but like someone wrote further up the thread I am properly scared of ending up in a hospital abroad and then catching an MRSA infection.
I got one such infection last summer and it fucked up three months of my life :-/
So... air travel... yay or nay?