Plane etiquette… lurgy

My brother got COVID in Brazil and flew back.funny thing was he very pro mask pro COVID lockdown, now he doesn't care.

I think a mask wouldn't do much the air is recirculated unless you maybe wear 2 and change them every few hours.

I guess the reasonable not to travel bit is dependant on distance and cost. I wouldn't cancel a booked flight from Singapore to the UK because I had a cold. I would now probably think twice about travelling on the train into the office now that WFH is a more widespread thing.

However I would say he should have worn a mask to try and prevent spread. I'm far from a pro masker however I do think the wearing of a mask whilst you have a cold/flu like illness is socially the right thing to do (as it has been in the far east for a while). I don't think it's a coincidence that I didn't have a cold for 3 years whilst masks were more prevalent and as soon as they stop being worn I get hit by a nasty cold.

I take greater issue with the immediate reclining.

Yes, it was quite annoying, particularly since his short female companion was as far back as she could go.

Mark and i generally get extra legroom seats since he is 6'7" and make sure to be considerate and enjoy the fact we can stretch out in front without squashing the pax behind!

The issue is that how was he supposed to delay his flight?

Let's say you've gone to Singapore for work / holiday and the day before you return you start to feel ill.

The airline will not change the your flight, so you lose £700 maybe? Maybe more... Then you still need accommodation, food and water whilst there, costing you however much more, that's if you can stay.

Then you have work, family, other stuff that you're flying for... Generally people don't take a 14 hour flight for sts and giggles.

So, with the shoe on the other foot, and if you had a cold, what would you do? How much cost and agro would you suffer to be polite? Or do you think, fk it, I want to get home / to the destination?

Easily solved

Be safe

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You can also cosplay like Sub Zero.

We picked up covid on the way in for an orlando holiday last year, then the latest lurgey at a cabaret dinner in Sitges.

we’d already said no more long haul flights after florida and now we avoid crowded places altogether tbh, just cant be arsed with catching further disease that seems to go on for weeks.

We live in central europe so are happy to use roads as we have nice cars, even happy to employ a chauffer if needs be, ferries we dont mind as people contact is minimal and only ever 1 night

Eat outside at restaurants or chef to wherever we’re renting, we’re not into mixing with people much anyway as they’re so inconsiderate in the way the op mentions, so we dont lose that aspect of holidaying, which many like

We’re finding if very agreeable in fact and finding ourselves doing things we might not have done before, been a pleasant surprise, so far.. car tours seem very good, all in your own car and just wave at other participants, all sit outside dining on arrival, or we do anyway

Unless he had a respirator with separate air tank like firemen wear a mask would've made no difference. Those cloth/surgical masks do nothing to stop viruses, they’re just for show.

You just have to accept you’ll get ill after a flight. That’s life.

Take some paracetamol and get well soon.

You need to upgrade a class, or, accept that in economy there is so little room that people are going to recline as much as they can. That's economy for you. You get what you pay for. Only time I don't recline in economy, is if its a meal time. That's stty behaviour, and not uncommon.

If it really bothers you, an upgrade to Premium is enought to get you loads more room.

As for colds, unfortunately, this has been happening for ever. I fly most years to SE Asia and have caught colds on the outbound flight several times, once from someone a few seats away that was as ill as hell. What can you do if you can't move? Best advice is take your own mask.

I'm absolutely NOT pro mask (covid), and I wore one very little during the 'demic, but BEFORE it all kicked off, we started taking masks on our economy SE Asia flights so we had one to hand if we sat near someone very ill again, as it was laying waste to the 1st week of the holiday. I felt it was up to us to act, not tell the ill guy what to do. Ironically, the super ill guy on one flight, who we called "Ebola man", he was that bad, wore a mask, but he pulled it down to cough...

This year we flew business class. No colds, no close contact with grubby strangers, good sleep :-) We flew maskless throughout Thailand, 6 internal flights, caught the rammed metro from Suvernabuhmi, all maskless. Not so much as a sniffle. Ironic the 1st year we don't catch anything is the 1st year Thailand reopened after covid!

One trip we caught colds in Bangkok on arrival, and then 7 weeks later, got on a tube from LHR to London fully of snotters, and caught another minger of a cold there and then!

p.s. Colds are spread by decent sized droplets / contact with the person's snot. Hence I think a mask can help (if they sneeze in your general direction). I watched a fascinating Mythbusters where they tested the theory of how much you spread your snot about simply by touching things, then other people touching and passing it on. I went to a pal's house over a week ago. He and his Mrs had stinkers (colds) - coughing loads etc. I had drinks with them, went to the pub with one of them, then stayed with them. I made damn sure not to share a glass, or touch anything they were using. I didn't catch the cold.