Originally Posted by
antonov225
stop quoting the Spanish flu. It’s largely irrelevant. In 1918 healthcare was poor/non-existent for many, sanitation and living conditions were much poorer, no hygiene control or education to speak of, poor diets and generally poor health for many resulting from that large war that just happened. Unless you want to start quoting the Black Death and we can all burn cats and check our humours then please give over about the Spanish Flu.
It isn’t like h1n1 no, and the health industry is way ahead in terms of science and technology. But remember that it's still a highly pathogenic virus and the risks are no different. We don’t have a vaccine for sars-cov-2 and neither did we when the h1n1 virus was spreading around, only pharmaceutical interventions. Also pandemics can follow the same paths of multiple waves if they can spread. So I see this time no different when it comes to preventive measures. The GOV are and have said many times that they’re following the science so the public who fail to adhere to their requests are in a league of their own.
My opinion for the exit of this pandemic is herd immunity; either by vaccine or infection. There is backing support for this from countries like Sweden (
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...035-7/fulltext).
The aviation industry is no doubt facing its biggest threat since the dawn of commercial aviation. But it’s going to have to play its part in fighting it a long side other industries.