Faa recommends Covid testing for crew
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Sounds great, but who’s the burden on to create enough days off between trips to test before the next one starts?
Theres times I’ve stacked my month up to free up lots of time off elsewhere. With only the minimum time between trips.
Done it when I commuted as well. If I go back to commuting, as sort of asked, how would the company handle that?
So many questions....
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Haven't done the "swish and spit" yet and I expect my personal trend in that regard to continue...
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It doesn't seem that hard to setup. My grad school does free weekly surveillance testing, takes less than 5 minutes. I could see why airlines would want to avoid the disruption caused by crew members finding out they're positive in the middle of a trip, possibly in another country, but it does seem odd that our current policy that doesn't allow us to fly while waiting for asymptomatic surveillance results discourages us from getting tested regularly which kinda contradicts FAA guidance and common sense.
Google (or YouTube) Bayesian Law of conditional probability.
And EARLY in an infection ALL the tests have poor to negligible predictive value positive.
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I’m not an expert but the virus usually takes days to show up. If you pass someone it doesn’t mean you’re going to get sick right then and there. I’m wondering why now, why didn’t they set this up early last year already. I can’t think of too many other professions where we put ourselves at risk than flight crew. The pilots especially since most don’t wear the mask, not that it matters, and you’re sort of just trusting the other person wasn’t partying it up in a COVID party before the trip. When I hear about this, I’m not thinking what hotel am I supposed to get when I test positive and who pays for my Uber. I’m thinking it would be nice to know the other person was infected.
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Sounds great, but who’s the burden on to create enough days off between trips to test before the next one starts?
Theres times I’ve stacked my month up to free up lots of time off elsewhere. With only the minimum time between trips.
Done it when I commuted as well. If I go back to commuting, as sort of asked, how would the company handle that?
So many questions....
Theres times I’ve stacked my month up to free up lots of time off elsewhere. With only the minimum time between trips.
Done it when I commuted as well. If I go back to commuting, as sort of asked, how would the company handle that?
So many questions....
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I’m not an expert but the virus usually takes days to show up. If you pass someone it doesn’t mean you’re going to get sick right then and there. I’m wondering why now, why didn’t they set this up early last year already. I can’t think of too many other professions where we put ourselves at risk than flight crew. The pilots especially since most don’t wear the mask, not that it matters, and you’re sort of just trusting the other person wasn’t partying it up in a COVID party before the trip. When I hear about this, I’m not thinking what hotel am I supposed to get when I test positive and who pays for my Uber. I’m thinking it would be nice to know the other person was infected.
https://www.medmastery.com/guide/cov...vailable-tests
Currently the US is reporting less than 10 million active COVID cases and dropping, out of a population of 330 million. But that’s only 68,000 newly diagnosed cases a day out of 330 million individuals. That incidence of new cases skews the predictive value positive even lower.
This is simply a bad idea, and the fact that people in government making decisions are ignorant enough to suggest it is actually pretty frightening. What else must they be screwing up if they are that ignorant? This isn’t a political thing or even an economic thing but basic science that has been well established since 1763.
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We can request to slide trips closer together, which can override the three-day minimum time off. But that does not have to be honored by the company. Any trip six days or less requires three days off minimum afterward when the company builds lines. Very short duration trips are rare, but happen on occasion. If one is concerned about getting test results while on the road then they simply skip taking the test until they have a longer stretch at home.
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