I'm still afraid of long-c. I insisted that we wore masks in airports and on flights when we took a trip last month. We live life in a normal fashion everywhere else (because we're vaxxed and boosted), but I wasn't willing to risk that environment.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Why just planes? Surely this would apply to all public transport.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Airports and planes see a lot of traffic from all over the world constantly rotating through. With some variation depending on the size of the city and your personal schedule, you're running into more of the same people on normal public transport.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And you're in very close proximity for a very long time. I don't know how HVAC works on an aircraft but I assume there's a large amount of recirculation.

I was on buses and trains this morning. They weren't nearly as crowded, the trips were a lot shorter, the air moved around at every stop, and like you said, they're all pretty local, so low risk of someone importing weird diseases. At least on the subways, you should still wear a mask if only because of the air quality. There's a lot of brake dust floating around.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

The filtration system on an airplane makes it one of the safer places to be for almost any airborne infection. The airport itself is much more dangerous, longer flights notwithstanding.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 56 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

If they're US American, a plane is likely the only public transportation they've ever taken. If they live anywhere remotely rural, it's likely the only one available to them.

Signed, -An American

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I was going to say "almost every American takes a school bus at one point in their life" then I looked it up and was disgusted to find that recently more children are driven to school than take the bus.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's absolutely ridiculous how many people drive their kids to school. The traffic reduction during fall break last week was astounding.

[–] Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's absolutely ridiculous how hard the school systems make it to get on a bus route.

You basically have to stay at the same residence and at the same school for their entire education. Even just moving within the district and they use it as an excuse to "put you on a wait list".

Add in the shortage of drivers (who wants that job) and any excuse they can use to change boundaries or cut a route.

It's like the fucking DMV on steroids.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

I am curious where you are located, this has not been my experience working closely with our schools.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago

I walk to work ten minutes to work. Partner and I each have cars. We take uber when we want to avoid driving.