> I wish they would simply remove every second seat and charge twice the price Will that help with the virus? It is less than six feet and you will be with that person for hours or so.
Isn't the distance completely irrelevant in an airplane anyway, seeing as everyone is in a closed, pressurised environment with recirculated air?
It is not really recirculated air. Most use compressor fan bypass air with one-way check valves throughout the cabin.
I think about the depression era behaviors that stuck around in my grandparents as a good example of what to expect coming out of this pandemic. They learned certain things out of necessity and it changed their worldview on everything from darning their own socks to what ingredients they'd use in their cooking. I expect that many of us will carry similar behavioral scars for years or decades later - ensuring we have…
Personally, I expect to walk straight to the sink and wash my hands, as soon as I get indoors, for the rest of my life.
...which, if it turns into a cultural habit, will both protect against getting infected but also make future humans more susceptible to diseases since their immune systems have not had enough exposure. It might also lead to an increase in allergies, as can already be seen in the higher prevalence of such in modern clean suburban housing projects versus the countryside. A bored immune system will find other things to attack, including harmless agents or even the body it is part of.