Qantas cheap flights with no social distancing

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Originally Posted by GeeRam

If this is for internal flights only, then its not much of an issue given the way Australia have reduced the community transmission rate...?

Indeed.
There are two reasons to be concerned about transmission of Covid.

1. Obviously (most?) people are very keen not to become infected. With around one new infection per million of population daily, this is not currently a practical threat, though it is perceived to be a threat by many people who do not quite grasp that their entire lifetime is unlikely to exceed 35,000 days, making one in a million per day a very small risk.
2. Equally obviously, as a community we're keen to keep the total number of new infections low and the transmission rate below 1.0. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of aircraft derived hot spots in the way that, for example, nursing homes and meat packing plants have become problems in many places.

So the individual risk at the moment is extremely low, and the risk of increased transmission within the community as a consequence of air travel within the community appears to be low.

Of course there is also the issue of individual states and territories limiting entry from other states.