Plagued COVID Conspiracy Theorists and other idiots - This is not a political thunderdome or gay slapfight thread.

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Why the hate for pilots and presumption that the majority are rightwingers? Is this a common belief? Does it have any basis in reality? I've never heard of this and I know several pilots (though most are not Americans).

Over the summer last year, there were some pilots for Southwest Airlines who quit/did a walkout about pilots being required to wear masks; Anti-vaxers cheered them on and far-leftists added all pilots to their long list of "people we're currently mad at."
On top of that, a lot of left-wingers can't accept the fact that most people are only willing to put up with COVID restrictions in the short-term and don't want to live with them for the rest of their lives. This article sums it up pretty well.
 
Why the hate for pilots and presumption that the majority are rightwingers? Is this a common belief? Does it have any basis in reality? I've never heard of this and I know several pilots (though most are not Americans).
I dunno about nowadays, but back in the WWII era there seemed to be a concerning coorelation between pilots and fascists/fascist sympathizers. You got Goerring, Italo Balbo, Lindberg, and probably a few others.
 
Over the summer last year, there were some pilots for Southwest Airlines who quit/did a walkout about pilots being required to wear masks; Anti-vaxers cheered them on and far-leftists added all pilots to their long list of "people we're currently mad at."
This is what comes from not allowing people with ADHD or any other need for brain meds to become pilots: they're all a bunch of filthy neurotypicals.
 
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Why the hate for pilots and presumption that the majority are rightwingers? Is this a common belief? Does it have any basis in reality? I've never heard of this and I know several pilots (though most are not Americans).
Nobody would disagree with me on anything unless they were a revisionist or counter-revolutionary aka secretly right-wing.
 
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that's similar to what we have at work some days. minus the surgical mask that the airline made him put over the valve.
Yeah, this is a dude who geared up for a flight, and the airline's policy was either "no exhale valves" or "who has time to argue about sparkle mesh and fishnet, passengers must wear one of our known-to-be-real masks."

(Doctor's offices and hospitals are working the same here; if you arrive in a cloth mask for source control, they offer a procedure mask for source control instead, but you're OK to wear it over your cloth mask. Or your KN95 or whatever you came in with.)

With no date on the photo, I can't say this isn't reasonable for a multi-hour trip in a flying bus, although he could probably take off the visor in favor of his regular glasses. It'd be a little silly for grocery store loadout.

I'm not a jet-setter, but haven't a lot of people had the experience of sitting in an airplane, a few rows away from someone with a cold, and then catching that cold? (And then giving it to Grandma whom you were flying to visit.) From a risk assessment standpoint, you have to admit commercial airlines have always been dodgy .
 
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Yeah, this is a dude who geared up for a flight, and the airline's policy was either "no exhale valves" or "who has time to argue about sparkle mesh and fishnet, passengers must wear one of our known-to-be-real masks."

(Doctor's offices and hospitals are working the same here; if you arrive in a cloth mask for source control, they offer a procedure mask for source control instead, but you're OK to wear it over your cloth mask. Or your KN95 or whatever you came in with.)

With no date on the photo, I can't say this isn't reasonable for a multi-hour trip in a flying bus, although he could probably take off the visor in favor of his regular glasses. It'd be a little silly for grocery store loadout.

I'm not a jet-setter, but haven't a lot of people had the experience of sitting in an airplane, a few rows away from someone with a cold, and then catching that cold? (And then giving it to Grandma whom you were flying to visit.) From a risk assessment standpoint, you have to admit commercial airlines have always been dodgy .
everyone gets sick from flying, always have. it's an enclosed metal tube with shit, barely-maintained air movement. there's barely any filtration and none at all until they take off.
 
everyone gets sick from flying, always have. it's an enclosed metal tube with shit, barely-maintained air movement. there's barely any filtration and none at all until they take off.
Plus it's recirculated over and over, and excessively dry, which makes people more likely to cough in the first place.
 
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