It's holiday season, which means you might be traveling on one of these sometime soon:
It's also cold and flu season, which means every surface of every airplane is probably contaminated and we're all doomed.
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For starters, you're in a small enclosed space with tons of random breathing people.
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You are thousands of miles up in the sky which means your ability to get fresh air seems limited.
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You're strapped in a seat for multiple hours, extremely close to lots of other phlegmy humans.
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Just think about how many people are roaming in and out of airports and planes on a daily basis...
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You know how many people have probably touched that knob? THOUSANDS.
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And they all definitely touched the bottom of their shoes in the security line — do you even know what's on the bottom of shoes?
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You have to escape to a closet-sized, equally germy bathroom so you can wash your hands 7 million times.
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And what even is that airplane bathroom smell?
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Did that person really just pass you your complimentary cranberry juice with their fingers on the rim of the cup?
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If someone coughs, those airborne virus particles are basically just going to chill all around you.
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And if someone sneezes, that monster just sprayed you with all of the germs.
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How do you even think diseases travel between continents? PLANES.
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Remember where that deadly epidemic movie Contagion all started? IN AN AIRPORT.
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That big bottle of hand sanitizer you packed? CONFISCATED BY THE TSA.
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And just when you thought you were safe...your seat mate pulls out the air sickness bag.
