US airlines are struggling to keep aircraft flying with minimal passengers. There is about 15-20% of the normal level of passengers.
There are also many air traffic controllers getting sick from coronavirus.
The double whammy could cause the industry to voluntarily shutdown passenger travel and only have cargo flights.
SOURCES- WSJ
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a bit late now after they spread the covid all over the planet..
Such as? I have seen many trials ongoing, but no certifiable treatment has so far been found AFAIK. Chloroquine still is a rumor until more tests appear and show to be conclusive.
Yeah, it’s possible something else emerges that works, but that is too expensive to be practical at first.
But there is nothing to gain from hiding it. In fact, it sounds too much as the classic “the rich are hiding the cure/ keeping it for themselves” conspiracy theory, common in times like these.
there is a treatment for covid right now. The rich and famous. doctors and some regular people have been cured. There isn’t enough of it to be generally distributed.
Figure half the american population could use it, 150,000,000, and we likely have less than a tenth of that.
It works as a deterrent too.
“The modern world simply isn’t used to live with the plague like middle-ages Europeans did, and probably our modern world can’t exist along it.”
It shut down life in the middle ages too, in some cases allowing more ambitious working class people to advance when it would otherwise have been impossible.
How the hell are passenger flights still happening?
Yep. The world ought to make finding a viable treatment for covid-19 its topmost priority.
We grew complacent trusting in the power of our medicine and good luck. It worked for us for so long we took it for granted. It isn’t. You only need a nasty bug that evolves to exploit all our weaknesses (gregariousness, big numbers, fast geographical displacements, lots of old and frail people).
As someone already said: there is no price too high now, with the already incurred losses of life and economy that virus has caused.
The modern world simply isn’t used to live with the plague like middle-ages Europeans did, and probably our modern world can’t exist along it.