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To: cosmicforce who wrote (481067)10/9/2021 6:37:38 AM
From: stsimon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 540685
 
Your position seems to be conjectural - kind of like blaming AIDS on air travel - and while there is a rational component of air travel to all modern disease transmission, to select air travel as the only cause seems like blaming the wrong thing.


I am not suggesting that air travel is the only route of disease transmission. Most cases are transmitted locally through human contact. The problem with air travel is that it is so quick that it acts as an accelerant for disease spread. New variants can spread from the U.S. to other far away regions, and variants from far away places travel here.



To: cosmicforce who wrote (481067)10/9/2021 4:04:37 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 540685
 
From my lived experience in which I used to do a lot of air travel in my job, I've found that air travel causes the spread of airborne microbes. Clearly demonstrated in this diagram:



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