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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
I can well understand the UK outlook.  They are in panic mode and have been for a year or more.   Almost "any port in a storm" will suit their needs.

They've been thru hell, believe me.  As many as 1500 deaths a day for months on end, lockdowns, waiting 'til midnite to order their groceries on a first come, first serve basis, isolation with almost no physical contact .... a vicarious sense of freedom where there is none.

No wonder I get so many emigration questions.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
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@capcom‍ Remember the Aircraft are flying virus tin cans debate, you know the general publics perception of that is wrong because you know about aircraft ventilation and how much engineering and science goes into it.

But if you want the science details, it turns out that opening windows or increasing ventilation in conjunction with social distancing decreases the possible transmission of the virus by 50% to 70%. There is some nice research done on this by Cath Noakes if you care to search her name and read it you'll be surprised how beneficial clean airflow is. Not that it is new, the actual concept has been around since Florence Nightingale.

Thanks LP ... given the air is purged / renewed / recycled every 90 seconds for the entire cabin, it was a complete nonsense discussion from the beginning.

Not always the case though with less than modern aircraft.  Got stuck in FCL on an Aer Lingus 747 in 1978 with an obnoxious Irishman smoking fat cigars 2 rows behind me.  The whole joint stunk.

So I kicked up my own stink.   It worked :)

Yes, I'm aware of Noakes work.  She sure knows her stuff.