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Social Distance

Is it Safe To Fly?

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jim answers a listener question about plane flights. Katherine peppers him with hypotheticals. Jim unfurls a bad metaphor, again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hi Catherine. Can you hear this?

0:07.0

I can hear this.

0:10.0

I can hear beeping.

0:12.0

That's you being paged. I can hear beeping.

0:15.0

That's you being paged. Oh, yeah, nightmareish.

0:20.0

This is sort of the segment we call Paging Dr. Hamblin, so that was you being paged.

0:24.8

And what are you paging me about?

0:26.3

How can I be of service?

0:27.3

I'm a very busy doctor.

0:29.8

This is what you're being paged about.

0:31.7

A question from an anonymous person.

0:35.1

I am a healthy 76 year old thinking about taking a non-stop flight from Nevada to Baltimore.

0:40.7

I want to see my daughter and her family including my grandkids who have been

0:45.3

fantastic about quarantining. I could self isolate in their basement. For the

0:49.8

flight I have an N95 mask and gloves and I get a protective face shield. I sing on the cake

0:56.6

I can wear a diaper to avoid public restrooms. Should I get on that plane? End quote.

1:02.4

And this is not you just changing your age.

1:07.0

Um, for asking for a friend. There's no way to know. I mean this person was anonymous. Okay. Well I know her name and

1:17.2

she's real and this was a real question of sort that we're getting a lot.

1:22.8

Right. I do personally though have this question because I also wish to visit family who are far away and how am I ever going to do that?

1:31.3

You know?

1:32.3

So what's the answer? The answer for her just to cut right to it is that she should.

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