2 weeks ago the number the CDC gave was 5,318 breakthrough cases. Was it revised to 9,000 a few days later, maybe. But you left out the denominator of 85,000,000 making the rate 0.008%. Did they revise the denominator as well???? If it went to 100 million, then YOUR rate is now 0.009%.-----BFD

Read on cdc site today......the count is not zero as some claim that's all...

Doubt it will ever be zero. After all, 24 people/year are killed by champagne corks, 13 are killed by toppling vending machines, and 150 are killed by falling coconuts.

That doesn't mean we live in fear of coconuts or walk around everywhere with a steel umbrella.

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

"You'll shoot yer eye out kid"

Ack, don't give anyone any ideas!

Pretty sure it was not the passengers who wanted to keep their masks on.
I am fully vaccinated, and would love to fly without a mask, however, it is not us passengers who are making the rules.
You are kicking the wrong dog!

Seems kind of silly to pull your mask down between bites of food or sip of a drink, then pull it back up after a bite.
Thought we were told NOT to touch your mask?

Actually, the silly part is that they require you to do this while they pack you into an enclosed space like sardines

I celebrate it!!!!!! What do you expect? We as a country were very, very close to driving CV to zero and into the history books. But, no......the anti-vaxxer propaganda swept in from Moscow and the anarchists, and the unpatriotic, and the outright society-hating types talked up and relayed that propaganda. So, now they have succeeded in stopping US Health and Medical Science in its tracks. There is even crazy, crazy talk being circulated like that Dr. Fauci started the CV. Are we in a MENTAL hospital or what?

The only thing left is for vaccinated people to group together to keep their sanity and TRY (?) to continue keeping the US economy floating. We were so close - we could have STOPPED the CV from mutating in the US.

I think that the country is improving. We stopped short of fascism - that has to be a positive.

Thanks for bringing truth and logic to the subject.

What IS silly IS quibbling about something of very minor importance.

Isn't there a federal mandate for everyone to be masked on airplanes? Even though the passengers were all vaccinated, don't they still have to abide by the federal mandate? Maybe if fully vaccinated flights are in our future, federal mask mandates can be relaxed for those flights.

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I get what you are saying. The masking between bites and sips is to minimize the amount of virus (if the person is infected but asymptomatic) that escapes their nose and mouth. It is all about the viral load that can potentially be in the exposure to an unsuspecting person who is close to them in proximity. This silly rule has nothing to do with protecting the wearer of the mask.

Believe me, I think this rule is ludicrous but I understand the reasoning for it. I will never eat on an airplane as long as these ridiculous rules are in effect. I have, however, mastered how to take sips of a drink in between masking.