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Old Dec 21, 2019 | 3:09 pm
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Originally Posted by shuigao
They're coughing, not singing karaoke, how are they supposed to moderate their sounds? Voluntarily cough less loudly? (I don't know about you, but certainly for me when/if I have a cough I never try to 'cough as loud as possible' ...)
And this is the point - most people don’t. But these people clearly were.

Originally Posted by bricksoft
Perhaps this is the solution if re-worded




Drink enough alcohol to knock yourself unconcious
I tried that.

Originally Posted by bht-kevin
You must not travel in Asia very often.

Imposing Western “manners” on an Asian bound flight is pretty self centered.
How ironically hilarious for you to assume the ethnicity of these coughers. The particular passenger of most concern was not Asian.
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