So I'm not saying this about the people in this thread(and certainly not LK) but I find a certain amount of despair in the complaints about the problems with air travel.
Leaving aside the environmental reckoning we're going to have to deal with in terms of air travel on demand(and boy howdy, are going to have to reckon with that) disruptions with air travel were such a natural and predictable consequence of the Western world's Covid policy of "Pretend it isn't happening and let the weak die in the service of people's convenience" that I really would have thought that at the very least there'd be less complaining about it.
I mean, just the physical realities of air travel mean airline staff are the most exposed to Covid and air lines aren't going to have this massive roster of staff on stand-by to fill in...like, how did people think air travel was going to work in a post-Covid world?
I can usually see your point, I might not agree but I can usually understand it...but I'm having trouble with what your message is here.
What I took from it and I'm probably wrong is, what did people expect to happen?
Pretend covid has gone away, reduce staff, allow no masks, no vaccines in a lot of places, take government handouts while still making profits and not investing in addressing these problems that a blind person could see coming and this is what you're left with, no accountability, no solutions, just capitalism caught with its pants down and it's hands in the public purse yelling durrrr.
Oh and maybe this could have been a catalyst to make air travel more green...
You're certainly not wrong. "How did people miss that ignoring an airborne pandemic would wreak havoc on staffing levels of a business dependent on staff being jammed into a metal tube with hundreds of other people for hours at a time" is definitely part of it. Everyone should have known that air travel during a pandemic wouldn't work as well as air travel pre-pandemic without massive changes but those changes weren't made, air travel isn't working well and people are outraged(although again, not talking about people in this thread).
In the Coronavirus thread I talked about how the "Let society open up! We have to learn to live with Covid" was so transparently misleading because the people advocating it weren't actually advocating for dealing with the natural consequences of those actions and the public investment needed to accommodate that(better ventilators in schools and LTC facilities, expanding health care capabilities, etc) but rather they were just advocating for opening up society, reaping the perceived benefits and not dealing with the hard questions that would leave us. It wasn't living with Covid, it was acting as if Covid wasn't here.
As someone who thinks that our society existing for much longer sort of depends on privileged people being ok with being less selfish in order for us to make meaningful changes in the way we live, it's fairly disheartening to see that not only are people unwilling to accept even minor inconveniences for the common welfare of society like masks, they're not even able to accept the consequences of their own obstinacy once they've gotten everything they want.
