>It’s not clear that’s true. Flying doesn’t appear to be causing covid to spread.
Come on now. Just because we don't have peer reviewed scientific studies confirming the fact doesn't mean common sense can't apply. You're sitting in an enclosed terminal with thousands of other people from all over the world who may or may not even be masked, waiting in multiple lines with no social distancing, and touching an endless amount of common surfaces. It's spreading like wildfire at airports without even including the actual flight itself.
I understand why common sense wants you to make that last statement, but we would be hearing that in the news. So far, I haven't run across stories asserting spread in airports.
How did covid get to Europe or the Americas? I realize you were trying to talk only about person-to-person contact while on the plane, but don't forget why covid spread so quickly to all the other countries on earth in the first place, that's part of what parent was referring to.
Yeah, people can have it, travel, and spread it elsewhere, certainly. I mean that person to person contact. If you're being safe at each end, flying doesn't appear to be causing an impact.
They could have got it just as easy at the store before or after the flight, in the airport, or in the uber. Hard to know... Certainly possible but having flown a few times this past year, not too worried.
