Potato, potato...agree to disagree I guess. Either way, I'm guessing going flying may trip the "S" or the "E" of the IMSAFE checklist.

 

What? Drink and drive for a few hours all over town while your county is probably on shelter in place orders? Trespass on to private property and hit golf balls (liter)? You do you mate.

 

I'm not going to comment on whether or not the OP should call in sick. I'll just say that being sick isn't the only reason to use our bank of time labeled "sick". It should more accurately be called our "not fit to fly" bank. Illness is only 1 of the reasons on the IMSAFE checklist.

 

Most likely you’re going to get it, whether you go to work or not, unless you are on complete lock down.

Hope you haven’t opened your mail. Hope you haven’t gone to the store or had food delivered.

3 times now I’ve seen cashiers touch change with their gloves and then handle food. One was at a take out place.

my favorite is the Westin dtw. Take all the coffee makers out of the room that at most one person touches a day, and put coffee pots downstairs that everyone in the hotel touches. Brilliant!

 

I think there's lots of gray area here. I don't have a problem going to work right now, depending on conditions. When I'm getting rerouted into multiple DHs, and then a NYC layover pops up, suddenly I don't feel so good about going to work.

My last trip I ended up in MIA for layover instead of RDU, and "enjoyed" multiple previously unscheduled DH legs. MIA isn't as bad as NYC, but none of these things were good for my personal overall stress level. I think if I had been rerouted in NYC I might have been a mess when I got home.

 

If you're not fit to fly, you're sick. How else would you call it? Pretty sure the I'm SAFE falls under sick. Some people are idiots.


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Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? - WSJ

Go to work. When this is over it’ll be a lot less frightening than we have all been made to believe by our esteemed politicians. There is definitely a risk group. But we have freaked out as a world community. As they say... “Don’t let a good crisis ever go to waste”.

Suck it up people. Go to work. You have more of a chance to catch this at Walmart in po-dunk USA now than anywhere else. And this “bug” has been spinning around the globe since at least November... all those trips and airport turns through world hubs you all made in December and January before this was even a big deal w/ people breathing all over you. Now it’s all of a sudden scary and dangerous.

When we all get tested for Bat Scratch Fever antibodies sometime soon, I bet the percentage of flight crews that had it, without even knowing it, will be close to 80-90%. Many of you have already been exposed. If you’re not fat, smoker, diabetic or vape like a chimney and under 60, then you are fine. Go lick a doorknob if you haven’t been exposed. It’ll help the herd immunity effect that we all will benefit from next year when this comes back.

 

So for every 1000 pilots who work, 700 will get it, 105 will require hospitalization and 35 will die?

 

This is probably the answer. Can't sick out for the duration of this. It is the job. If you get it, maybe 1% chance of dying. You will sacrifice to avoid transmission to her and the family. If she still doesn't like it, weigh the cost of the leave and personal drops and let her decide if the money is worth the risk.

 

Must be the statistics class they taught for liberal arts degrees. HA!!