Travel In The Era of the COVID-19 Outbreak

[KaliYoni]

I've been using this risk chart to help me decide which preventive measures to take in a given situation since it was published by the San Francisco Chronicle early in the pandemic:

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/23/43/62/21904541/6/1200x0.jpg

Yes, it may be based on old data but I think the general guidelines are still valid.

While we're talking about N95 masks, I like the fold-style masks made by DemeTECH. These masks are not cheap but they are NIOSH certified, made in the USA, and, most important, relatively comfortable to wear for long periods.

 

[Gregg2]

Well that's a no brainer. In the case where both people are wearing nothing, there is no social distancing!

 

[rhett7660]

I'm taking 4 hour flights on Nov. 1st and Nov. 8th. I will be wearing an N-95 mask on the shuttle, in the terminal, and on the plane, except when snacking. My son got COVID on a recent flight from the same airport I'm going to. It's not over. Masks make sense, which is why you see most people not wearing them.

We just did a ten hour and eleven hour flight oversees. Not a lot of folks wearing masks. There were some, not a lot though.

We are taking another flight this week from California to Texas... I expect we will see the same amount, if not less, people masked up.

 

[maflynn]

We just did a ten hour and eleven hour flight oversees.

My vacation this summer, where I flew to Hawaii, most people did not wear masks.

 

[rhett7660]

My vacation this summer, where I flew to Hawaii, most people did not wear masks.

Yup... the vast majority, and we were the minority (location wise) on the plane. Most were not American on the either flight. When we landed at our location, there was very little mask wearing by the locals.