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Old 8th May 2020, 00:38
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Aviation changed the world and we are all proud of the roles we play, we take our responsibilities very seriously. If we don't people can die.

Covid - 19 has infected many and will continue to - more will die, a simple fact. How many more will die does depend a lot, exactly how many extra deaths will never be known. We currently just do not know enough about this virus yet, simple things like can you catch it again are not known. We do know a fair portion of cases require medical attention, up to ICU admissions.

Our medical colleges are short on resources from PPE to ventilators and ICU beds in many areas and countries, they are working hours we cannot imagine trying to help the sick and watching people die. They are just asking us for time, time to learn and time to increase capacity of the medical centres. They are happy to treat everyone of us, they just cannot treat all of us at the same time - spread the load.

We, our industry played a large part in transporting this virus around the world in record time. Not intentionally but we did all the same, I expect we shall repeat again but let's try not to.

It is our responsibility to assist our medical counter parts until they are better equipped, we need to minimise infection rates to levels our medical professionals can handle. This is highly variable by location. Mass air travel at this time is not very responsible to many locations.

Limited "required" air travel would be great to see, but booking vacations seems a little selfish at this time.
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