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Air travel is objectively more dangerous than any outdoor activity. There are multiple credible traced studies of transmission on planes, and there remain very few (really almost none) detailing outdoor activity of any kind.

As with anything else, including sitting in a restaurant or bar, any single flight is unlikely to infect you and statistically "safe" from the perspective of individual risk. But air travel is absolutely spreading this disease.

The whole notion of treating a pandemic via the lens of individual risk ("will I get sick if I do this one thing") is broken analysis, of course. But at this point I despair of our ever being able to free ourselves of that nonsense. It's just too ingrained.