The observed risks from catching COVID during a flight have been extremely low even when no one was vaccinated:
Planes require that people appear to be healthy and wear a face mask in order to board a plane. We are told that vaccinated persons should wear face masks since they can still catch and transmit the virus, and new strains getting even better at bypassing the vaccination.
If the main benefit of the vaccination is to prevent people from getting severe symptoms, the vaccinated arguably represent a greater risk of an infectious person getting on a flight without obvious symptoms. Should there be no-fly list for the vaccinated?
Or is the whole idea of no-fly lists just new ways for the government to end civil liberties?
Want me to spend money in this economy, get off my jockstrap. Until then, I have zero problem not flying or not entering a city and spending money. I am vaccinated by the way, just not fond of authoritarians.
Then don’t do stuff. That’s your choice. These authoritarians don’t want their customer’s health compromised by the unvaccinated. At some point, the other shoe has to fall here.
How is a private airline enforcing vaccination rules for passengers more authoritarian than the rules they’ve always had in place? For example, the Delta website says:
All baggage is subject to search.
We reserve the right to refuse any bag that has a size, weight or other condition that poses a safety or annoyance risk to other passengers and/or crew, or baggage that is unsuitable for transportation on the aircraft.
I’d personally rather not resort to exclusion, but the potential negative health results of COVID don’t seem to be motivating the unvaccinated. If we truly want to put this behind us, we need more people to get vaccinated. Exclusion of the unvaccinated seems like the route businesses are taking, whether as a condition for employment or to use their services.
Again, I’d rather people realize that getting vaccinated is for the greater good and will more quickly return things back to normal. But if they are unwillingly, they need to face some pushback.
Vaxxed people are good to go. They will only incur mild or no symptoms if they do get a breakthrough infection. Now let’s compare that to a random unvaxxed person.
See the difference.
1.A guy in our office who was vaxxed, got the covid, and will stay home for two weeks
This person who was unvaxxed, got the covid and died.
