Masked Journalist’s Hysterical Rant About Air Quality on Her Flight Gets Fact Check Added to Post

Admit it: At one point, the prospect of COVID-19 frightened you.

It’s OK to say it. The most ardent conservatives who, quite rightly, protested the lockdowns and preposterous restrictions that followed, probably had a moment or two where they didn’t just think it was a “little cough.”

And why wouldn’t we? We were being told by supposedly reliable media sources all over the political spectrum that this was a plague that could have a death rate of somewhere in the area of 3 to 5 percent and was wiping out entire nursing home populations. (By the way: Thanks for that, former Gov. Cuomo.)

We put on masks at and wiped down groceries with hand sanitizer. We bought toilet paper like it was going out of style. Many of those whose jobs allowed it did remote work and binge-watched “Tiger King” for weeks on end.

Eventually, most of us realized we had to go on living life. By the end of 2022, according to CBS News, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data show that 77.5 percent of Americans showed antibodies indicative of at least one prior COVID-19 infection.

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Tellingly, only 54.9 percent of Americans thought they had a bout with the disease, indicative of the fact that for some people, symptoms were mild or nonexistent. As for me, I mistook my first infection for a case of allergies and overwork — hardly a dread disease, but then, I’m not high risk.

So, yes — most of us have moved on. And then there are those who will be perpetually stuck in April of 2020.

Alyssa Edes is apparently one of those people.

On her X profile, Edes describes herself as a “recovering journalist” who used to work at NPR affiliate WNYC, specifically on “More Perfect,” a podcast about American history, law and the Supreme Court.

Would you wear a mask on a flight?

In other news, she is a “rank sentimentalist, as suspected. she/her. still bi. still masking.”

You may perhaps see where this is going — but, on Friday, Edes apparently was forced to (gasp!) go on an airplane with a whole bunch of people who weren’t wearing masks. And, because she was still stuck in those heady days of April 2020-level fear, she brought an Aranet4 CO2 air quality monitor with her. Because of course.

“Jfc [Jesus f***ing Christ] @united, the air quality on this flight is horrifying and one, maybe two other people on this full flight of 170 people are wearing a mask,” she wrote in an X post Friday evening. “A reading like this means air is not circulating. CO2 itself at these levels are unhealthy, not to mention viruses being breathed out.”

According to the Aranet4 users’ manual, the numbers on the screen indicate air temperature, humidity, and the level of carbon dioxide as measured by parts per million. CO2 levels above 1400 parts per million are considered “unhealthy.”

However, community notes appended to her post indicated that using the monitor on a commercial plane presented challenges beyond just hypochondria:

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“The Aranet4 CO2 sensor requires calibration for use at altitude; which would not be possible on an airplane,” one note read. Another added: “The indicated humidity of 31% is also not possible on airplanes, where typical cabin humidity is between 10-20%.”

She reacted about as well to this as she does to people who don’t wear masks in anno Domini 2024: ‘lol a “community note’ added to this post implies the reading is inaccurate because of altitude. THIS READING WAS BEFORE TAKEOFF ON THE GROUND IN CHICAGO, IL, which is notably flat.”

Thankfully — whew! — things got better once they were airborne:

Imagine my relief.

Interestingly, only those Edes follows or mentions could reply to her posts, however, there was still evident skepticism about her concern.

Edes has not, as of this writing, announced that she contracted COVID from her scary, scary flight from Chicago to wherever. I’m sure if she had, she’d have posted the test the moment the strip turned pink.

These are some of the things she’s seen fit to repost in the interim on her feed, however:

Please.

It’s been four years since SARS-CoV-2019 began infecting people, and some still aren’t willing to let it go. They want masks forever — even though health authorities have accepted this is an endemic disease, and that even the temporary restrictions of 2020 and 2021 created externalities like mental health issues, deaths of despair and massive educational lapses.

To COVID warriors, no restriction is long enough. We need to all put on as many masks as possible and carry CO2 monitors everywhere we go, even if they’re not being used in an environment where they’re necessarily reliable.

Yes, we all may have been scared of COVID once. But if this is the level of fear you insist on applying to life four years into COVID, one wonders how much worse could death possibly be.


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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he’s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.

C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he’s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).

Birthplace

Morristown, New Jersey

Education

Catholic University of America

Languages Spoken

English, Spanish

Topics of Expertise

American Politics, World Politics, Culture



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