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Last time I flew was 2015.

In 2024 should travelers carry masks just in case?
 
   / Foreign Travel? #122  
Last time I flew was 2015.

In 2024 should travelers carry masks just in case?
I flew twice in the last month, but domestic and not west coast. There were a half-dozen people on each plane wearing masks, but that was it. I assume those people consisted of a few sick individuals and a bunch just exercising extra caution.

Frustratingly, I heard the people behind me stating they had just tested positive, and they coughed on the back of my seat the entire flight. I don't care if it's COVID or a common cold, that's just inconsiderate.

If the few people who actually have COVID would just wear a mask in public for a week, this really wouldn't even become an issue worth discussing. Making healthy people wear masks is somewhere between stupid and useless, they're only very effective when worn by the sick person.
 
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   / Foreign Travel? #123  
It was kind of freaky. I'm at a power plant that would probably be turned into a smoldering pile in the first few minutes of such an attack.
That would be bad for me, I've gotten to the age that it is difficult to stick my head between my legs and kiss my rear goodbye.
 
   / Foreign Travel? #124  
The U.S. also bought into the scam, only a few didn't unfortunately. Hopefully, we are more aware now and would not go along without proof of a real danger!
History repeats itself, so some narrative will be set to instill fear without any scientific basis and scare the masses into compliance.
 
   / Foreign Travel? #125  
The Taiwanese were accustomed to wearing masks pre-covid. Part of that had to do with them being hit hard with the SAARs epidemic around 2001-2004. The concern for them in 2020 wasn't being asked to wear N95s, but that they could only produce something like two N95s per week per resident. And it seemed like China stepped up their saber rattling at the same time.
The Asians have always been pretty agreeable to wearing masks. I think you correctly point out that they've dealt with many more regional respiratory pandemics, then we've had.
 
   / Foreign Travel? #126  
The U.S. also bought into the scam, only a few didn't unfortunately. Hopefully, we are more aware now and would not go along without proof of a real danger!

Some rural areas in east Texas didn’t buy into it.
 
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Some rural areas in east Texas didn’t buy into it.
Can’t comment nationwide but the difference leaving the SF Bay Area to Oregon and up to Olympia was night and day…

I was thinking Twilight Zone seeing everyone out and about no mask…
 
   / Foreign Travel? #129  
Our first flight after the pandemic, we took masks just in case. I was worried about someone being sick near me on the plane. The last flight we took, I can't remember if I took the mask or not.

This weekend I met in passing, two Filipino teachers traveling in the US. I mentioned that I knew someone traveling to Mindanao. She did not saying anything other than where she lived. My impression from her body language was she did not want to say anything negative about Mindanao. The teachers were very nice and polite with very good English.
 
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I’m still getting that… great, wonderful, you are going to love it… where exactly?

Mindanao then silence…
 

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