Originally Posted by
chuboy
Shame to see so many transport pilots in this thread who are averse to "risk aversion". I hope your gung-ho mentality is confined to armchair commentating about infectious disease epidemiology and other matters about which you know very little, and not to your decision making on the flight deck
And you are an epidemiologist who knows better than the ‘armchair commentators’? The argument swings both ways. Should pilots be making flight deck decisions during the flu season when around 500,000 die annually and around 3 to 5 million catch it? What about a pilot who is undergoing personal stress or anxiety, how do you measure that data? Seriously, hardly anyone is denying the existence of COVID, the deaths, and the short and long term side effects. And nobody is saying a Pilot should still fly if and while affected, but to keep locking down states and countries is a complete joke. Should commercial aircraft in general be banned? After all, they are not ‘green and environmentally friendly’ and around 2.4%
of global CO2 emissions come from aviation. Together with other gases and aircraft water vapour trails the industry is responsible for 5% of global warming.
And for the record, third world countries and/or despotic countries are always going to have higher percentage rates with any disease due to these reasons - no food, no water, no shelter, no medicine and/or being held to ransom by incompetent corrupt political readers. And some of those countries have a billion citizens so the numbers will be higher. Again, 99% of infected people recover. Destroying the global economy is not worth the price.