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by hexbinencoded 2082 days ago
I was just about to write the same.

I don't believe these figures.

Fundamentally: How could they ever hope to track every single passengers' COVID status? I think they are basing this conclusion on dozens of cases a few airlines knew about and erroneously extrapolating from that while ignoring the COVID statuses of millions of passengers.

In addition, if it's not independently peer-reviewed, it's reasonable to conclude it's industry propaganda. They will say anything to save their golden goose.