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Old Aug 4, 2021 | 6:50 pm
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Originally Posted by Centurion
Yes all those airline studies are independant and have no bias towards indicating the aircraft is safe with airflow Hepa filters etc. You are stuck in a metal skinned tube that is sucking in air that often has traces of Jet A fuel. I suggest you all smoke a cigarette a day as recommended by your doctor in the 1960s.
Well, despite hundreds of millions of cases of COVID globally and a lot of studies and contact tracing, there are only one or two flights with documented transmission on an airplane* that I'm aware of. And none of them involved a plane that had been fully tested, fully vaccinated, and with masks required, which in this case also includes the OP wearing a high filtration mask.

As for the supposed presence of jet fuel in the incoming air mid-flight, are you saying there's a connection between that and COVID, or just that flying is generally unsafe?

*although technically I don't think they could rule out the possibility of transmission in the terminal or jetbridge before/after the flight
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