"We will be arriving at gate C36. Baggage claim at terminal 2. Please note that it will take several minutes for security to respond to any reports of assault, and the exterior door on the jetway is a little loose and 30 feet up from the ground"
i don’t know how any of this works but turning around/rebooking 129 passengers seems kinda drastic for one asshole right?
I'm just picturing the guy in noise cancelling headphones who passed out...woke up 4 hours later when the plane landed...and whatever mindfuck that person had for the next 5 minutes.
There've been several flights that have landed because of anti-maskers. iirc the pilots typically tried to land at the closest airport, if you're flying across the Atlantic you'd probably just turn around if you aren't far out.
Yeah like the guy is an idiot and should be punished of course, but if he’s already maskless for two hours, just finish the flight. Not to mention everyone else on that plane will be maskless for ~1 hour for the meal services.
My sister and her son both have it. Believe he caught it a school. I have been concerned about either my sister or my oldest daughter getting it since the beginning. Both have some health issues. Both are having a harder time of it than my niece
I was wondering if the fact that it's a federal mandate that's being violated while you're in the process of leaving the jurisdiction complicates matters for the crew.
What the fuck. That's absolutely horrible. I understand you likely don't have a lot of details, but do you know anything more about how? We had a scare last week with our 2 year old. Developed a fever on Monday morning and by that evening, he started showing croup-like symptoms and was struggling to breathe normally. We've always been told croup is one of those things that seems terrifying but is very treatable and usually not something you have to rush to the ER for if your pediatrician's office is closed. However, he started having such a difficult time that his lips were changing color, so we hauled ass to the ER. O2 levels were intermittently dipping into the 80's. Covid+. Fortunately, treatment immediately helped, and we were able to return home. The rest of what I assume was the omicron covid experience was relatively mild for all of us. I've since read that croup is common with omicron and wondering if it's hitting differently / presenting some high-risk situations that parents aren't used to. If the breathing issues would have started occurring in his sleep instead of while we were actively monitoring him, I'm not sure how things would have turned out
My son has it now, and he’s been screaming at the top of his lungs so I’m assuming we are lucky, is this an incorrect assumption? How was your kid acting so I know what to look for if you don’t mind me asking?
I mean it was standard croup stuff that raised our alarms to begin with -- barking cough, wheezing, kind of self-aggravating. The symptoms just grew to a state that was far worse than any of our prior experiences with croup. I'm not sure if you've ever witnessed your son choking on food, but the looks he gave me were just like when that happened a few months back. It was obvious he was very scared and something wasn't right. Hope yours feels better soon, man
The thought process was that if he’s already been maskless for two hours, he’s likely passed on whatever he’s carrying to his neighbours, so each remaining hour of the flight becomes less covid relevant. A flight from Miami to London is a few hours less than 12 hours too. Ideally they’d have sorted this all out prior to takeoff though.
The flight attendants would have had to deal with that person the entire flight. It doesn’t say in any of the tweets when she took the mask off. I assumed she did it after they took off and like someone said got far enough away from land she didn’t think they’d do anything about it. There has to be video of it
I get that element but surely there’s some leeway in the decision to turn around a flight when a passenger disobeys. I hope, for example, they wouldn’t turn around a flight if a passenger refused to open/close the window shutter when asked at cruising altitude. But who knows, maybe we’ll get video and the passenger was more disruptive than I was imagining.
Ireland is probably the most risk averse country when it comes to removing restrictions but our public health people have just said there is no public health rationale to nearly all restrictions left. Vaccine passports going, early closing time for pubs going, all school measures going and masks are going to be gone by February. The mass testing and tracing system will be wound down quietly. Feels over to me, though a new variant will definitely spook people again.
Lol, he’s not predicting the end of the pandemic, rather the end of doing anything about the pandemic.
Just got my Pfizer booster yesterday. Had the AstraZeneca shots back in May/June. Kinda surprised the boosters made it here so fast. Thanks America!
it’s crazy how much right wing Twitter talks about covid restrictions and this guy is totally right. Everything is open, with a few rare exceptions no one is forcing masking.
I would have guessed that maybe the original tweeter wasn’t American, since in many countries there are currently restrictions, but she’s in Connecticut so that theory was a dud.
i am fucking sick of people in the U.S. claiming they were ever fucking "locked down" at all. fuck them. it's all bullshit.
They don’t want to wear a mask when they walk in to Applebee’s to get their weekly pick 2 deal, okay?
the big thing I always see is how concerned they are for kids and their mental health. When I ask them how they feel about kids having to pretend to hide from someone trying to shoot them at school from the time they are 3 until the are 18 I never get any response
I just want to be a piece of shit but block anyone from calling me a piece of shit, that’s just my first amendment rights, read the US Constipation and don’t tread on me!
March-May will probably be a lot better . after that depends on if another variant emerges to F us again
Yeah I'm p tired of all this "well maybe it's just time for us to move on with endemicity as our new normal" bullshit. What part of "healthcare system currently on the brink" signals that it is time to turn the page to these idiots?
Hey now, the death rate has only gone from a 7-day moving average of 1200 to like 1900 in the last two weeks, what do you want us to do, try to save these people? That’s only like a 50% increase, why do those people deserve to live more than I deserve to breathe unimpeded on grocery store produce?