Ebola: "Up-Close-and-Personal" or 20 Feet away? On a Plane--It May on Matter! Video

POLL: On a plane with a vomiting ebola-positive person...I believe that:
If I can get 10 to 15 feet away from his vomiting I'm safe.
If I can get 20 to e0 feet away from his vomiting I'm o.k.
If I'm in 1st class and he's in Coach...I'm safe.
If I even sat next to this guy BEFORE he puked, I'm toast.
In the even of a vomiting passenger--everyone on that plane is screwed!
The heroic thing to do by Delta would have been to drop airmasks for the passengers.
There should be hazmat blankets to throw over potential vomiting passengers.
I will never fly again--so it isn't something I worry about.
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GLP thread up tonight 10-17-2014
Thread: Senator Rand Paul: "EBOLA 'Incredibly' Contagious."
(Senator claims just standing 3 FEET AWAY from an
ebola-positive person will expose you...how about
3 feet away with projectile vomit coming your way?)


This man's son-in-law (to be) was on that Delta 1760
flight to Tampa 48 hours ago. You can listen carefully
to his report of what went on inside that Delta plane
and get an interesting "misinformation" that I believe
is circulating around ebola infection models.

Listen to what he says here (I know this has already
been posted...but I have a serious question! Even if
you have heard it before--listen again and consider
"distance of personal proximity to an ebola positive
person" the narrator is describing!)


[link to www.youtube.com]
(Education/discussion)

In this video the son-in-law (to be) was sitting
elbow-to-elbow with the West African fellow who
had projectile vomiting. He was quick enough to
jump into the isle of the plane before the "event"
and refused to take his vomit-covered seat--
tho he was threatened with arrest if he did not
do so by Delta personnel!

The man sitting directly behind the ill passenger
voluntarily gave up his "semi-clean" seat to the
son-in-law and proceeded to take the yucky seat
this guy refused to sit in.
(I thought this was very brave, considering that
the pilot of the plane, apparently wouldn't land
the plane "until everyone was seated"...concern for
safety is Delta's number one priority, you know!)

So...I'm thinking while I listened to this nausiating
report that...O.K. The young man who jumped out
of his seat "just in time" is safe from catching
this horribly contagious virus--ebola, right?

Then I thought..."That guy behind the vomiting passenger thinks that he's already been exposed--so what the hell,
sit in the puke...so this guy DOESN'T think he is safe.
(Both the son-in-law and the passenger who volunteers
his "clean seat" are within what...3 or 4 feet from this
nasty "vomiting-event.") So..one is safe...the other
is "toast. Which one of them is correct in their
assumptions?"

The flight attendants made the sick passenger
"clean up his own vomit"...so the stewards obviously
believed that they would be "safe" if they didn't clean
up the mess. They would be standing within 3 or 4 feet
to give the guy the demand to do this chore himself.
They must think 3 or 4 feet will make them safe. So...
are the stewards (who have obviously got more info
than just the average passenger) correct in their
assumed "safety?"

My Question:
Isn't it true that since the air on a commercial
airliner is "recirculated air" and is NOT filtered
air...then just the airesolized minute particles
that are present in dropletts--AFTER the man vomits
--are all over the plane in a matter of minutes due
to the air system the passengers are breathing.

Bottomline, here...Is there a "safe distance" in
a commercial airliner (except maybe in the baggage
compartment under the plane...or hanging on for
dear life in the wheel well)--if you are breathing
the "recirculated air" anywhere inside this airliner
you are exposed--period. What is the truth?

And why don't they drop those airmasks they have
for emergency landings when something like this
happens so that passengers can breath clean air
until they disembark? Wouldn't this help? Has
anyone even suggested that maybe this could be
a partial solution?
Just wondering--anyone know this answer?
thanks!
O'sCookie

This should be procedure in airlines which
believe a passenger is ebola positive...the
release of the in-flight airmasks. This is
a separate oxygen supply from that which normally
circulates in the cabins. Why isn't this offered
to the concerned passengers during a medical
situation such as the one in the video?

Cabin-pressure emergency in an Australian
airlines causes airmasks to deploy! Great idea!

[link to www.youtube.com]

Last Edited by TheOracle'sCookie on 10/18/2014 03:48 AM