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bleh all this corona virus stuff is making me scared
Don’t be! You just need to be alert. Wash your hands, try to keep distance of anyone who might be sick, avoid touching your face, and avoid trying to touch other people’s hands!
And also, even if you get infected, the death rate is very low for those that are young, there’s like a 0.2% chance of dying for those that are 10-39 years old.
Just be careful, wash your hands, keep your eyes open, and be alert! This isn’t the end of the world. We all went through the H1N1 epidemic in 2009. We’re still here! Be determined and careful, my friend!
Like, i’m not saying no security at all, but we need to disband the current TSA and go back to like. A quick x-ray of your bags and a metal detector.
When I was a kid flying alone, my parents knew I was smart and not easily freaked out by planes, so from age 8 when going to visit my grandma (an hour’s plane ride away), they wouldn’t even bother to set me up an an “unaccompanied minor”, they’d just let me fly.
Today that sounds absolutely NUTS, but you know why they could do it when I was 8?
When I was 8, they could walk me to the gate, put me on the gangway, and watch the plane take off, and know that my grandmother would be waiting at the gate on the other side to pick me up when I stepped off the plane.
Shortly after 9/11, my sister went to go visit my grandma. She was probably 10 or so. They wouldn’t let anyone go through the metal detectors anymore, you had to have a boarding pass, but if you went to the ticket counter and said, like “I’m picking up/dropping off an unaccompanied child/an elderly person/someone with disabilities” you could get a non-ticket pass to get through security and go to the gate.
Like, people forget sometimes, I think, that the full blown craziness of our current airport “security” (which is a joke and often does more harm than good - hurting or distressing innocent people and missing actual threats going through) took a while to ramp up. If you told parents in the wake of 9/11 that they would not be able to go with their unaccompanied children through security to make sure they got on the plane safely, or be there to pick them up at the gate when they arrive, there would’ve been fucking RIOTS. I remember my parents - VERY conservative and pro-Bush and pro-Patriot act and everything - being FRUSTRATED that they had to get a special pass to go with my sister through security if she was flying alone, because shouldn’t the fact that she’s a child and they’re her parent be enough to get them through?
Seriously, I know this is just one issue out of MANY that the current TSA has, but it’s just. It blows my mind.
You used to be able to go have lunch in the terminal with a friend if they had a layover in your city. You used to be able to romantically chase someone down to stop them boarding their plane when you realized you’d made a mistake turning down their offer to like. Get together or whatever. You used to be able to PUT YOUR GODDAMN CHILD ON A PLANE and be sure that on the other end someone would be right there to pick them up, or that they could just sit down right outside and wait if their pick-up person was running late.