Low bar for humour these days
There used to be a thing called ALARP. Just how low does the risk have to be? I've been vacinated the prevention that gives to me and others is way higher than playing around with masks (yes, yes... "Other people", but if they've chosen not to have a vaccine that's their choice - bet in an average year I bump into a single immunocompromised person, though they would have likely been vacinated).
John, I know you love the environment. 1.6 billion disposable plastic masks apparently in the sea in 2020. Everything has a cost and benefit. The balance is way out.
The deaths on a single average year from light aircraft are about on par with the covid deaths so far (over 2 years) if you ratio 28,000 pilots up to a population of 67 million. But we still get in our planes, why? Because we like it and it's not that actually that risky. But apparently with covid it is an unacceptable level, perhaps we all should be made to stop flying for our own good and the good of others we might crash into on the way down. If we were all 100% rational, logical people, concerned at preserving our lives we wouldn't get in our planes.
I would argue traffic, OSHA, and airlines in the above meme is personal protection also and are different to potentially saving somebody else who transits past you for a second in the shop. Chances are with vacinne rates, they have been vacinated too.
We are 50% in agreement I think that going to be enough. Fortunately it's the more meaningful 50% on vacinnation.
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