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rickair7777 10-03-2020 07:43 AM

Pfizer EUA Vaccine Approved by FAA
 
https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=96258

TransWorld 10-03-2020 11:04 AM

Did they state a medical rationale for that?

rickair7777 10-03-2020 11:24 AM


Originally Posted by TransWorld (Post 3139743)
Did they state a medical rationale for that?

Uncertainty. What they don't know might bite their bureaucratic butts.

TransWorld 10-03-2020 11:28 AM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 3139750)
Uncertainty. What they don't know might bite their bureaucratic butts.

Sounds like the standard attorney risk avoidance attitude. If you don’t get out of bed, you cannot slip and fall in your shower. Stay in bed and never get out. It is safer that way.

cactipilot 10-03-2020 07:41 PM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 3139639)
ALPA has advised members that participation in COVID vaccine trials is medically disqualifying for pilots, at least for the time being.

WHEWWWW..... I'm so glad I'm wayyyyyyyy too lazy to have even considered doing something like that.....

rickair7777 10-03-2020 07:55 PM


Originally Posted by cactipilot (Post 3139901)
WHEWWWW..... I'm so glad I'm wayyyyyyyy too lazy to have even considered doing something like that.....

x2. If somebody had called me I probably would have done it.

ShyGuy 10-03-2020 10:31 PM

Well of course it should be disqualifying. Oh yeah, I’m taking an experimental trial drug that hasn’t been proven yet, I’m the human guinea pig today.


Sorry, there is no way you should be touching any airliner.

Duffman 10-04-2020 07:26 AM


Originally Posted by ShyGuy (Post 3139927)
Well of course it should be disqualifying. Oh yeah, I’m taking an experimental trial drug that hasn’t been proven yet, I’m the human guinea pig today.


Sorry, there is no way you should be touching any airliner.

I don't think any reasonable person would disagree on this. Half the over the counter stuff at Walgreens will disqualify you while the drug is in your system. But once a vaccine gets an FDA approval and is 'ops tested' by an airline pilot, then it'll be a different story.

rickair7777 10-04-2020 08:49 AM


Originally Posted by ShyGuy (Post 3139927)
Well of course it should be disqualifying. Oh yeah, I’m taking an experimental trial drug that hasn’t been proven yet, I’m the human guinea pig today.


Sorry, there is no way you should be touching any airliner.

No need for hysteria.

Probably a lot more reasonable to be grounded for 2-4 weeks after the last booster. If your immune system hasn't had a reaction by then it's probably not going to, and the odds of sudden incapacitation are remote anyway.

Phins2right 10-04-2020 01:04 PM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 3140072)
No need for hysteria.

Probably a lot more reasonable to be grounded for 2-4 weeks after the last booster. If your immune system hasn't had a reaction by then it's probably not going to, and the odds of sudden incapacitation are remote anyway.

so you got that going for you, which is nice.

Don't take the shot(s). Need a year or 3 to see how this plays out. Far different than say a yellow fever or Typhoid shot.


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