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The surreal experience of flying during a pandemic
"[F]lying during a pandemic turned out to be more stressfuland surrealthan Id planned for," writes McKay Copkins in The Atlantic. After two months of social distancing Copkins went on a reporting trip that required a plane flight. He was looking forward to the trip, but as soon as he got on the plane he realized that air travel is no fun during a pandemic.
I arrived at my assigned row, and found a stocky, gray-haired man in the seat next to mine. When I moved to sit down, he stopped me. Sit there, he said gruffly, pointing to the aisle behind us. Social distance.
Not eager for a confrontation, I decided to comply. Within seconds, though, a flight attendant materialized and ordered me back to my assigned seat. My recalcitrant would-be seatmate, vigorously objecting to this development, responded by blocking my entrance to the row with his leg.
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Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/08/the-surreal-experience-of-flyi.html