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Nice to see they aren't bothering with social distancing. I mean, sure, they might be spreading a deadly virus, but how else are they gonna talk about how bad-ass that wingsuit flight was? Totally worth killing immunocompromised people.

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This sounds like a "Karen" comment. Do you really think a few guys flying in turbulent air will spread covid? Have you seen all of the people who gather in parks in San Fransisco? This flying experiment is not even comparable to other vectors of the virus that immunocompromised people are exposed to on a daily basis.

It's not so much a 'Karen comment' as actually respecting human life. But sure, let's all spread the disease whenever we feel like it just because other people spread it worse.

It's amazing how little morals people have nowadays when I have to defend not wanting people to die.

Coughing at 10,000 feet is completely harmless. That sort of turbulence/condition is an unviable transmission vector for a virus as it reduces the PPM beyond effectiveness.

They're outside and (in the last congratulatory shot) almost all wearing masks. I think that is defensible.

It's not defensible, because you still have to social distance even when outside.

FWIW, this paper (on the danger of thanksgiving dinners...) has some graphs showing the difference between transmission during indoors vs. outdoor meetings. The difference is tremendous.

Slide 6 - the barely visible brown line hugging the x-axis is outdoors.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xmN0e4svqi6QZQtzmSjXU12znWB...

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