Coughing, sneezing, vomiting: Visibly ill people aren't being kept off planes

[riversedge]

Fauci said Jan. was going to be a terrible month for covid deaths.

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United Airlines workers disinfect a cabin of a plane in July at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Coughing, sneezing, vomiting: Visibly ill people aren’t being kept off planes



By Hugo MartínStaff Writer
Jan. 1, 2021 5 AM

Before boarding a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles, Isaias Hernandez filled out a health checklist provided by United Airlines, asserting that he had not been diagnosed with COVID-19 and had not shown any of the disease’s symptoms in the previous two weeks.

But during the flight, the 69-year-old Angeleno collapsed. Three passengers gave him CPR for nearly an hour in the aisle of the plane, and the flight was diverted to Louisiana, where Hernandez was pronounced dead. The coroner’s report listed the cause as “acute respiratory failure, COVID-19.”

The Dec. 14 incident illustrates the deficiencies in the systems that are meant to prevent people from bringing the coronavirus aboard commercial flights and potentially spreading it to the people packed in around them. And it happened as holiday air travel ramped up. In the days surrounding Christmas, more than a million passengers boarded planes almost daily, reaching 1.3 million last Sunday — the most since March.



U.S. airlines boast layers of protocols intended to protect passengers from the virus, including the increased cleaning of plane cabins and a requirement that passengers wear face coverings except when eating or drinking. Nearly all of them also require passengers to fill out a health declaration before boarding. But the only repercussion for lying on the declaration or refusing to wear a mask on the plane is getting banned from the airline, if caught. ...............................

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Sounds like the same failure to impose national mandates:

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[secondwind]

3. This is because HE IS LAZY... he doesn't want to do any WORK. He literally is killing dozens of

people A DAY.

[secondwind]

2. Airline employees need to be paid more, this is hazardous duty!

I hope the three passengers who gave him CPR for almost an hour... made a beeline for their doctors..

[MisterNiceKitty]

9. True, there should be some sort of Federal hazard differential

I doubt the airline companies will do it.

But why do people need to be saved from themselves? Flying while you know you are ill?

Are they just hard headed?

[pwb]

4. Airplanes and cruise ships will push

the all is normal message when it is not even close to normal. $$$$ talks.

[uponit7771]

6. +1, instead of Pushing Putin's Whore to do the right thing they push passengers on to the plane

[Hugin]

5. The airlines have off-loaded the liability by having...

the passengers sign a form self-verifying their COVID status.

So, they no longer care.

We're beginning to see how well the self-verifying is working on the vaccination front as well.

[Blues Heron]

7. Last thing that lying pig did before DYING was to endanger 100's

What a piece of (dead) shit he was. Hope he's enjoying the fire below.

[safeinOhio]

8. In the mean time

"Crippled Airline Industry to Get $25 Billion Bailout, Part of It as Loans." NYTimes

[Hekate]

10. Kick