Posted on 12/28/2020 3:43:15 PM PST by Vendome
In the days after a man on their flight stopped breathing, fellow passengers wondered if he was infected with coronavirus – and whether they might be at risk. The airline said it didn’t know, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wouldn’t say publicly.
An answer didn’t come until a local coroner released a report a week later confirming that covid-19 was a cause of the 69-year-old man’s death on Dec. 14, along with acute respiratory failure. By Wednesday, three different passengers said they still hadn’t gotten official word from any public health authorities.
“I figured somehow they would get in touch with everybody, send out probably a mass email – at least to everybody who booked the flight – and say, ‘If you were on this flight, you should go get tested,'” said Robert Reeves, 53, who was a few feet away from the man as medical workers performed CPR in the aisle for roughly 45 minutes
Some airports and airlines have been requiring preflight temperature checks or offering preflight testing as they try to adapt to the new public health landscape. Testing offered by airlines is generally meant to help passengers meet entry requirements at their destinations or avoid quarantine when they arrive.
Neither temperature checks nor testing, of course, is perfect. Travelers could be asymptomatic or too recently infected to run a temperature. And someone could be infected but still test negative.
“Individuals can be pre-symptomatic or entirely asymptomatic,” he said. “In both cases those individuals are still infectious, and the symptom screening tools are completely ineffective.”
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There is no way to interact or be around other human beings anymore.
We call all be typhoid Mary and not even know it.
This is ridiculously pathetic...
Oh noooo! If only we had required testing, mandatory vaccines, and an internal passport for travel on airliners. The bullshit never ends. People living in the Soviet union were not subjected to this much propaganda.
So let me get this straight, we keep doing more testing and finding more and more people have it. And yet somehow its a scandal that somebody has it and we should panic over them and isolate them?
More garbage written by Pravda. I take that back. Pravda was much more credible!
““Individuals can be pre-symptomatic or entirely asymptomatic,” he said. “In both cases those individuals are still infectious, and the symptom screening tools are completely ineffective.”
Then how would they know not to get on a plane???
Except for the new study 2 days ago that said asymptomatic people were NOT contagious.
Yet, no one else on these planes seems to get such a supposedly extremely contagious disease. Very strange.
Note the wording in the story that “covid-19 was a cause of the 69-year-old man’s death along with acute respiratory failure.” What brought on the acute respiratory failure?
So, covid was not THE cause but A cause? I have a feeling this another example of someone dying with covid and not from covid.
This is out of control. So do people with colds, the flu, and a million other things. So what.
I flew out to see family for Christmas on Southwest.
They not only sold out the ENTIRE plane (middle seats anyone?) but they had us sit on the tarmac for half an hour for luggage and turned the AC and ventilation OFF.
I’m not going to live my life in fear but cmon people.
Now either southwest knows something we don’t or they’re just blatantly ignoring it.
I hate being on a plane when they do that...
That’s why I’m working on private jet money...
Covid probably wasn’t even a cause.
They tested him and he came back “positive”.
They can’t test for viral load and once you have been tested PCR can detect down to a one trillion bit and at the point it is no longer of clinical value
Get the Ivermectin from India or Canada.
I wish we could all agree we got played. We overreacted.
At this point we need to just drop everything and let the chips fall where they may.
I’m 68, and I and certainly ready to forget the whole thing.
Maybe a certain number of people will have the sniffles who otherwise wouldn’t..
Let’s pass a law that prohibits masks, prohibits shutdowns, and prohibits any further mention of the China virus.
People with coronavirus are still getting on planes. No one knows how many. Planes are still flying, no one knows how many.
STFU Seattle.
You are way past any of us giving a shi...er...Obama about.
Just sit there and burn.
We enjoy the visuals.
Die, die, die.
This shit will NEVER end.
Time to just move to the middle of nowhere S. Dakota etc and live out our lives in relative peace.
“””The man who died submitted a “ready-to-fly” checklist that said he had not been diagnosed with covid-19 and did not have symptoms. But the family later confirmed he had been feeling sick as they prepared to travel; his wife told medical workers on board that he had lost his sense of taste and smell.”””
For those who read further they would have come across this tidbit.
How braindead are some people? It has been common knowledge for months that covid causes a loss of taste and smell.
The airlines won’t tell reveal it because they could be held liable. And the CDC doesn’t give a crap unless they gain more power from it.
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