Technically he’s right here.
I took a flight last Christmas, completely sold out flight and packed like sardines. The airline touted their hepa filtration air system that made flying “safe” in these pandemic times.
The flight pulled away from the gate (as is tradition because the FAA counts you as a late departure if you don’t leave the gate on time but it’s a-ok if you detach from the gate but don’t actually go anywhere) and then, because of the heavy christmas traffic so the runways were full and to save fuel... TURNED OFF THE ENGINES - which has the same effect of... turning off the air circulation system.
And there we sat for 15 minutes as 300 people packed in a closed space with no social distancing packed the air with their breaths with no circulation and filtering.
At that point my government mandated mask (which, btw, has its own internal filter because it’s an actual MASK and not a piece of paper I use to LARP as a doctor with) was going to be about as good as paper windows in a rain storm.
‘The airline touted their hepa filtration air system that made flying “safe” in these pandemic times’
I have to almost laugh at the airline CEO the other day who was testifying that the HEPA filters on his planes are superior than what are in ICU hospital rooms. It’s like, yeah, okay, but no one is cramming 200 people in an ICU room.