Originally Posted by
CAirBear
Here’s the thing. I’ve been in the career about a decade. Guess what I see every single winter which is cold and flu season? Packed airplanes. Literally no gave a single F about POSSIBLY getting sick while traveling by airplane.
People traveled like crazy when they could have gotten sick and they will do it again when this is over with.
Your talking about Americans. A society who, by and large, have the most ridiculous shortest attention span of probably any other society on the planet.
This idea that Americans are going to be too scared to ever fly again is ridiculously stupid. 8-12 months from now (assuming we actually have defeated this or close to) will be a distance memory as they get on with their lives.
Im sure some super pessimistic folks will go on and tell me now flawed I am now.
I think the "final" death toll and whether or not this turns out to be seasonal as well as when a vaccine is available will determine the publics long term memory. More fatalities means it becomes more personal to more people. It took a complete overhaul of security after 9/11 and it will take something similar from a health perspective this time. We better start figuring out ways to keep aircraft clean and their environmental systems cleaner and make sure the traveling public knows it.