Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Personally, I'm not impressed with any internet "experts" and people who claim they "wouldn't get on the xyz plane" because of ABC. They're usually full of doodoo...

I have a very difficult time taking people, who during time of a respiratory illness and flu-like symptoms, made run on stores and depleted the country of, are you ready for this, THE TOILET PAPER! Not vitamins, not severe cold/flu medications, not Zinc... TOILET PAPER! The vitamin and medicines aisle was literally untouched. And all because some boob wrote something on social media that spread like wildfire and the sheeple went after it. Pardon me, but common sense has departed this country a decade or two ago because people are no longer capable to think for themselves. MAX aircraft fly how many hours every DAY? With what accident rate? Or incident rate?

These same people are the same idiots who will happily "forget" their proclamations about "never getting on xyz aircraft" if the price is right, and they'll do it albeit without the similar fanfare as their initial proclamations. Case in point - our MAX aircraft usually tend to get very full and no one gives two feces about it.

Lastly, the 737 has had far worse issues i.e. hardover rudder. Yet we didn't ground it. We fixed it. We addressed it. We didn't ground fleets. We didn't shut down airlines over it. We didn't give every freak a podium and a bullhorn. But now we do... because clickbait sells, and thanks to clickbait nonsense, the standard now is 'Never shall anything ever break or malfunction, for if it does, the whole thing is unsafe.' And self-appointed experts, i.e. useful idiots, are propagating this in the form of further clickbait.

Maybe I'm just getting old and have zero time and no tolerance for self-proclaimed experts who have absolutely ZERO clue about what they're talking about, even if they are from Delta Air Lines.