I’m fairly surprised to read this, as I continue to be surprised by the number of my friends and acquaintances who have flown home with COVID despite having the means not to. Every flight I’ve taken since the pandemic started, I’ve taken the time to game plan what would happen if I or someone in my party were to test positive during the trip. Did you not do this? On the scale of the incomes you have posted on your blog previously, $2000 or so is not very much.
And from the JetBlue policy you linked to, I guess you bought Basic Blue fares?
It seems like you chose to be your own insurance policy and then decided not to pay out.
Several airlines, at least as of a few months ago, required me to check a box confirming that I had not tested positive for COVID in some recent amount of time, or had a fever. Is this no longer the case, or did you choose to check that box?
Maybe the risk numbers make sense here, but planes/airports are one of the hardest places to avoid to be able to participate in society normally and I am surprised by your choice given all the other posts in which you seem exceedingly concerned about not spreading COVID.
Every flight I’ve taken since the pandemic started, I’ve taken the time to game plan what would happen if I or someone in my party were to test positive during the trip. Did you not do this?
I didn’t, though I knew it was a possibility. I also didn’t make game plans for “get in a car accident”, “miss our flight”, or “they lose our luggage”.
On the scale of the incomes you have posted on your blog previously, $2000 or so is not very much.
I don’t think of the money I earn as entirely mine, and my income has also recently dropped by about 4x due to switching careers.
But even then, it can’t just be “if it would cost $X to reduce transmission by Y%, you should do it if you have $X”—it matters how much X and Y are.
Several airlines, at least as of a few months ago, required me to check a box confirming that I had not tested positive for COVID in some recent amount of time, or had a fever. Is this no longer the case, or did you choose to check that box?
The airlines aren’t asking this anymore. If they were I would have answered truthfully.
That they’ve stopped asking this is more information about how they view covid.
I am surprised by your choice given all the other posts in which you seem exceedingly concerned about not spreading COVID.
I was very concerned in 2020 about spreading covid: I thought it posed a high risk for some people and we needed to work together as a society to make sure they didn’t get it. Changes since then include (a) vaccination, (b) availability of high quality masks, and (c) society mostly giving up on reducing spread. And so for the last year or so I’ve thought the amount of sacrifice people should make to reduce spread is much lower now.
I’m fairly surprised to read this, as I continue to be surprised by the number of my friends and acquaintances who have flown home with COVID despite having the means not to. Every flight I’ve taken since the pandemic started, I’ve taken the time to game plan what would happen if I or someone in my party were to test positive during the trip. Did you not do this? On the scale of the incomes you have posted on your blog previously, $2000 or so is not very much.
And from the JetBlue policy you linked to, I guess you bought Basic Blue fares?
It seems like you chose to be your own insurance policy and then decided not to pay out.
Several airlines, at least as of a few months ago, required me to check a box confirming that I had not tested positive for COVID in some recent amount of time, or had a fever. Is this no longer the case, or did you choose to check that box?
Maybe the risk numbers make sense here, but planes/airports are one of the hardest places to avoid to be able to participate in society normally and I am surprised by your choice given all the other posts in which you seem exceedingly concerned about not spreading COVID.
I didn’t, though I knew it was a possibility. I also didn’t make game plans for “get in a car accident”, “miss our flight”, or “they lose our luggage”.
I don’t think of the money I earn as entirely mine, and my income has also recently dropped by about 4x due to switching careers.
But even then, it can’t just be “if it would cost $X to reduce transmission by Y%, you should do it if you have $X”—it matters how much X and Y are.
The airlines aren’t asking this anymore. If they were I would have answered truthfully.
That they’ve stopped asking this is more information about how they view covid.
I was very concerned in 2020 about spreading covid: I thought it posed a high risk for some people and we needed to work together as a society to make sure they didn’t get it. Changes since then include (a) vaccination, (b) availability of high quality masks, and (c) society mostly giving up on reducing spread. And so for the last year or so I’ve thought the amount of sacrifice people should make to reduce spread is much lower now.