Airlines infect the world and media/WHO back them to the T

2-4-20  Air China doesn’t seem willing to completely give up US flights. The airline currently flies to six US destinations--Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, New York JFK, San Francisco, and Washington.   4x weekly from Beijing to Los Angeles to San Francisco; 3x weekly from Beijing to New York JFK to Washington

  As the airline describes it, this is intended to maintain essential air connectivity between the US and China in the most economical way. https://onemileatatime.com/air-china-usa-flights/

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3-4  Speaking at the 5th Africa Aviation conference being held in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Gebremariam said the novel coronavirus transmission won't be prevented by stopping direct flights to China.

  "Flying direct to China doesn't mean we will stop novel coronavirus, because passengers from China can travel to African countries including Ethiopia through various others hubs. That's what the interconnected world means.  As per the directive of the World Health Organization (WHO), stopping flights isn't the answer. Isolating China because it has novel coronavirus outbreak isn't fair," said Gebremariam.  http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/04/c_138843815.htm

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3-27  The pandemic has not kept Chinese airliners from maintaining their routes to cities like San Francisco, Melbourne and Frankfurt....

  on 20 March, Ethiopian Airlines suspended 30 international routes, including Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Madagascar and Nigeria, some of which remain so indefinitely....  

  Falling into line with the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), headed by Ethiopian-born Tedros Ghebreyesus, which called on the international community to refrain from cutting off trade and to demonstrate its solidarity with its “Chinese brothers and sisters,” Ethiopian Airlines defied the shower of criticism....Ethiopian Airlines continues to operate its intercontinental routes and may even be one of the last international carriers to maintain them.  Theoretically, it is still possible for European and North American businesspeople to fly to Beijing.  Besides Paris, the airliner has routes departing from Brussels, Frankfurt, London and Vienna in Europe, and Chicago, New York City and Washington DC in the US, with a stopover in Lomé, Togo instead of Dublin, Ireland.  https://www.theafricareport.com/25202/ethiopian-airlines-to-china-last-international-carrier-standing/

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2-6-20  WHO is not currently recommending travel bans with the novel coronavirus, arguing that they are counterproductive. According to a WHO spokesperson: “This is because of the social disruption they cause and the intensive use of resources required.”…

  whatever airlines do, viruses and pathogens will always catch a lift on aircraft.  For example, while it is relatively easy to suspend direct flights from infected regions, it is far harder to trace passengers who arrive from an infectious area but who have travelled on several flights and changed planes (and sometimes airlines) en-route at an intermediate hub.

  It doesn’t mean these interventions have no benefit, but it is likely to be modest. The rapid global spread of recent outbreaks has shown that they are usually introduced after the event and that their efficacy has been limited.    http://theconversation.com/air-travel-restrictions-wont-protect-us-from-the-coronavirus-131237

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3-6    Exit and entry screening may look reassuring, but experience with other diseases shows it’s exceedingly rare for screeners to detect infected passengers. Just last week, eight passengers who later tested positive for COVID-19 arrived in Shanghai from Italy and passed the airport screeners unnoticed, for example. And even if screeners do find the occasional case, it has almost no impact on the course of an outbreak.

  “Ultimately, measures aimed at catching infections in travelers will only delay a local epidemic and not prevent it,” says Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong. He and others say screening is often instituted to show that a government is taking action, even if the impact is marginal.   https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/why-airport-screening-wont-stop-spread-coronavirus

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2-13-18  

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/14/3623.full.pdf

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2-28-20   This approach is based on guidance from the World Health Organisation (WHO), which defines “close contact” as being within one metre of an infectious passenger.

  But why two rows precisely?  And what does that phrase – “close contact within the context of a plane” – mean in practice?

Outside the context of a plane, close contact is defined as “face-to-face contact” or “spending more than 15 minutes within two metres of an infected person,” the HSE says.

  On a plane, which is not necessarily the petri-dish of biohazards that travellers sometimes assume, two metres is roughly two rows.  https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/coronavirus-where-should-you-sit-on-a-plane-to-avoid-infection-1.4188022

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January 23, 2020 flight Hk to Bangkok Vivek Prakash / AFP

2-6-20  Wearing a mask all the time is ineffective. It allows viruses to be transmitted around it, through it and worse, if it becomes moist it will encourage growth of viruses and bacteria.  https://nationalpost.com/news/world/how-to-avoid-coronavirus-on-flights-forget-masks-says-top-airline-doctor
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  Those who are egotistical enough to believe these luciferian lies which would have men bypass the hierarchical system of initiation and ignore the Godhead may fall under their power....Today as of yore humanity, captured by a runaway imagination, do not understand the great creative laws by which man--functioning under the Deity is able to work logically with God and  to assist Hierarchy in the doing of that noble work which makes man a co-creator with God.
-Leonora:  Pearls of Wisdom 13:34