What are your thoughts on flying right now? Trying to get away but also scared to fly because of COVID. Is it irresponsible?

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It’s fine, wear a mask and use hand san

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You’ll get the same general theme of responses here as with any question like this: it carries an added risk of you getting or spreading Covid relative to if you weren’t in an enclosed space with other humans, that risk is relatively small, but your cumulative risk of getting or spreading Covid will go up incrementally all the more here.

For the airplane situation itself, planes refresh air quickly which means that your risk of getting or spreading with someone far away is low. With someone right near you it’s obviously harder. Load factor matters. I flew this past weekend and there were 60 people on my 737, so pretty low load but not the astronomically-low load common circa April.

Note there’s also an inherent risk in traveling that you move Covid from one area to another, even if it doesn’t spread in the airplane itself.

When every decision is a risk (and every risk a decision) that adds a small-ish amount to a perpetually-growing ledger of instances that each of us has towards getting or spreading Covid, you have to ask:

- How much do you personally care about getting Covid? What is your personal risk and the risk to those around you? In my case, I live alone and am not even remotely terrified of the disease itself, so that’s a source of comfort in a weird sense.
- What is your sense of societal obligation to reduce the spread? This is an incredibly complicated question that I won’t even try to unpack here. But, I suspect the variance in answers in this thread will come most fundamentally down to differing viewpoints on this question.

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Thanks, I appreciate that :) I spend more time reading Covid news / Twitter than doing my actual job, so try to write thoughtfully about it when I can, within the bounds of my non-expert status.

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I wouldn't fly unless it's an emergency. Rent a cabin in Michigan for a long weekend to get away. Cheaper and less risk.

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It’s fine. Probably less risk of getting a cold or flu than before honestly haha.

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