Originally Posted by
uncertaintraveler
I probably wouldn't do anything while on the flight, but once I got home I'd probably create a thread about my experience on some website focused on the accumulation of airline miles.
That's the best post I've read in about two months. It was lost on everyone else, but I just want to say, great job! ^^
I picked up a NASTY, nasty bronchitis from a guy coughing for 9 hours across the aisle.
You may have. You may not have. Things around you might look sterile, but they are not. You could have picked that up anywhere. You, like everyone else around you may have been exposed. You have picked something up by touching something and then touching a mucous membrane. You would likely have been exposed to it somehow. There's no necessary cause/effect relationship there and the only way to avoid this is to not fly.
I'd definitely say something. Even if they don't stop all the germs with their hands, it'll at least decrease the chances a little bit. That being said, I think I'd stop at the drugstore on the way home and get a big bottle of Vitamin C/Airborne.
I thought that all of the scientific evidence had proved that wrong?