VIA Rail

[ac3r]

I'd say the benefit is not wearing a mask on a plane (or train). What's the point anymore? Covid-19 is a mild cold at this point for basically anyone but the sort of people who should probably not be flying in an airplane to begin with if they're so vulnerable. We've all had ten thousand booster shots at this point, haven't we? Those work. It's endemic and every single human being with a pulse is going to get it dozens upon dozens of times for as long as they live.

If germs on a plane or whatever scare someone, well...think twice about even touching the attendant call bell or even pushing the Stop button on a bus. There are even worse things out there like methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, hepatitis, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, clostridium difficile and so many more all over every single surface you come across in public. I'll bet a good number of posters on this forum already have at least one of those and they don't even know it (not yet, anyway).

It's just really goofy to keep walking around with a mask at this point because even if someone believes they haven't got it yet (which is basically bullshit unless they've literally been living in a bubble 2 kilometres underground) they are going to get it again and again and again...