Airline Blankets???

[Danger]

I hate germs (almost) as much as the next person but I don't see what the fuss is about. You're not eating your meal off the blanket or blowing your nose on and use it as a towel or rolling around in it naked . . . I don't see the need for laundering after every flight. I wish airlines would do away with packaging the blankets in plastic. That's the real hazard, for significantly more people (long-term).

 

[Renato1]

You're not eating your meal off the blanket or blowing your nose on and use it as a towel or rolling around in it naked . . . I don't see the need for laundering after every flight. .

That's not really the issue. The issue is whether someone else has rubbed their runny nose into the blanket or dribbled all over it.
Cheers,
Renato

 

[juddles]

That's not really the issue. The issue is whether someone else has rubbed their runny nose into the blanket or dribbled all over it.
Cheers,
Renato

Renato, for both your education and your peace of mind, you need to study up on diseases and and how they are spread. The first thing I would draw your attention to is how hard it is actually to spread most diseases - many viruses etc are actually very delicate and perish easily before sharing.

If you study the numbers, which include stats and volumes and reality, if you board a flight in the USA you WILL be ingesting in your lungs gases that were not only already used by other people, but guaranteed statistically that on anything longer than an hour flight in the USA, some of the particles you ingest have just come out of the lungs of AIDS suffering people. You are worried about a runny nose..... yet you breathe in much that is more personal.....

 

[Renato1]

Renato, for both your education and your peace of mind, you need to study up on diseases and and how they are spread. The first thing I would draw your attention to is how hard it is actually to spread most diseases - many viruses etc are actually very delicate and perish easily before sharing.

If you study the numbers, which include stats and volumes and reality, if you board a flight in the USA you WILL be ingesting in your lungs gases that were not only already used by other people, but guaranteed statistically that on anything longer than an hour flight in the USA, some of the particles you ingest have just come out of the lungs of AIDS suffering people. You are worried about a runny nose..... yet you breathe in much that is more personal.....

But by that reasoning, one shouldn't worry about using someone else's hanky that they sneezed into yesterday.
Maybe that's so - but EEEK.
Cheers,
Renato

 

[MEL_Traveller]

...some of the particles you ingest have just come out of the lungs of AIDS suffering people. You are worried about a runny nose..... yet you breathe in much that is more personal.....

Just to be clear that HIV - the cause AIDS - cannot be airborne and therefore cannot be transmitted through exhaled breath, or sneezing or anything else like that.

 

[juddles]

Just to be clear that HIV - the cause AIDS - cannot be airborne and therefore cannot be transmitted through exhaled breath, or sneezing or anything else like that.

Exactly - hence the first half of that same post you quoted