Originally Posted by
Jaimito Cartero
Or perhaps your body already had had it, so you wouldn't catch it readily?
Really? I've heard of people catching two colds during one winter.
Originally Posted by
sactoflyer
Id probably tell you to kiss my behind. What make you think the mask stopped a cold? Do you wear one everyday and everywhere you go. Seat mates are not the only source of a cold virus.
I know that there are selfish people and bullies. That is why I might not ask someone else to wear a mask. Or I might offer to them and give them an easy way to decline.
However, suggesting that seat mates don't give you colds after coughing for hours is silly logic. That would be like finding the shoe bomber not guilty because he could have just been wearing the shoe bomb with no intention of blowing the plane up, just playing with matches....right.
Tuberculosis is spread by coughing on planes. The reason they track it is because you don't get over it like the common cold but the method of transmission is the same.