frequentflier [he/him]

Masks are uncomfortable, especially if you have skin conditions, and especially if you have to wear them during travel times that have ranged up to 25 hours in the past year for me.

I just don't want to. Just like I would be reducing the risk of killing other people by walking 4 hours with my luggage to the Amtrack station and then taking a 2.5 day train ride vs ubering to the airport and taking a 5 hour flight. But I don't really want to.

So no, I don't really care about changing a one in a hundred million chance of infecting someone into a one in a million chance. And given the rates of covid illness being more than a cold, we're closer to one in a billion. The numbers would be different if I didn't have vax or natural immunities.

And yes, you have my permission to absolutely stay mad about it. 💅 I hope you understand how comically alienating you fellas are to the working class. 💪

How high is too high?

Would you say it's higher than the chance of someone being harmed as a result of a car trip, either instead of the plane ride or during the rides to/from the airport?

I'll repeat from my other comment:

What would you estimate the probability of me having symptomless covid and spreading it to someone, given the reinfection rate for omicron among vaccinated people who’ve had it and had an immune response to it within the past several months?

Just a ballpark number, I’m legitimately curious of what kind of risk you are assigning to this

I just read that Ukraine has released some of the key members of Tornado battalion as some kind of neo-Nazi suicide squad situation, after a lot of them were convicted and sentenced (can't make it clear enough how bad it was that you got post-Maidan Ukraine to sentence them) for "rape and torture, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, extortion, robbery, and creating a criminal gang"

Somehow still not numb enough to get over news like that

What would you estimate the probability of me having symptomless covid and spreading it to someone, given the reinfection rate for omicron among vaccinated people who've had it and had an immune response to it within the past several months?

Just a ballpark number, I'm legitimately curious of what kind of risk you are assigning to this

It is absolutely how it works.

“There are reinfections, but it is unlikely that -- if you mounted a good immune response -- at least over a period of several months, it is extremely unlikely that you will be reinfected with the same variant,” Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a press briefing on Friday.

If you factor in various other factors such as my vaccination plus booster, and the fact that I showed quite a bit of resistance to omicron even before getting it (took a week of habitation with an infected person before it got past my immune system), the risk of my catching and then spreading it is so utterly small that it is effectively none when it comes to risk management decisions. If I were that risk averse, I simply wouldn't travel by plane or car anyway.

"if"?

i was flying yesterday when it happened. people clapped and cheered. not everyone, but a few vocal ones, like when your plane has been delayed at the gate for an hour after boarding and finally the pilot announcing you'll be taking off.

and yes, everyone (including myself) immediately removed their masks. i got omicron a few months back and am triple vaxxed so i am not at risk of spreading or catching covid, and it's much more comfortable without one.

anyone who hasn't gotten it should keep their masks on tbh but where i am pretty much everyone got omicron so i'm not surprised no one masks up anymore

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