“Why would someone not wear a mask in a public place?”
Half the deaths are within commuting distance - on filthy subways - of New York City. In the rest of the country, over half of deaths are in nursing homes. So for the rest of us, about 15,000 deaths total among 300 million people.
And it primarily needs sustained contact with an infected person. A friend of ours died with coronavirus, if not from it. His wife did not catch it. It just isn’t as easy to catch as the FearBros make out.
FLYING:
“On all modern aircraft, passengers and crew breathe a mixture of fresh and recirculated air. Using this combination rather than fresh air only makes it easier to regulate temperature and helps maintain a bit of humidity (more on the humidity in a moment). The supply is bled from the compressor sections of the engines. Compressed air is very hot, but the compressors only compress; there is no contact with combustion gasses. From there it is plumbed into air conditioning units for cooling. It’s then ducted into the cabin through louvers, vents, and the eyeball gaspers above your seat.....
Studies have shown that a crowded airplane is no more germ-laden than other enclosed spaces—and usually less. Those underfloor filters are described by manufacturers as being of hospital quality. I needn’t be reminded that hospitals are notorious viral incubators, but Boeing says that between 94 and 99.9 percent of airborne microbes are captured, and there’s a total changeover of air every two or three minutes — far more frequently than occurs in offices, movie theaters, or classrooms.”
https://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/cabin-air-quality/
FWIW, I’m a FluBro. I also plan to fly next week coast to coast. I’ll wear a mask because the airline I’m going to fly on requires it. Not because it think it will do squat all to reduce infection of other passengers or my probability of catching something.
The air inside a commercial airliner isn’t quite as pure as open Arizona air, but it is probably safer than the air one finds in WalMart.
I got the last time I took a long distance flight.
A girl 4 rows behind me had a terrible cough. She was wearing a mask but I knew 1/2 the passengers on the plane were going to get sick.
I sure did. Don’t think it was Covid 19, but it might have been its precursor. I was sick for a month with a terrible, racking cough. Can’t imagine how bad Covid 19 must be for people who get sick.
I’m neither a flubro or a fearbro.
I want them to open 95%+ of the country. If that means wearing masks when in public and social distancing so be it. The economy is the far bigger problem now.
They said they needed time to bend the curve and we gave them that.