In light of recent events, how confident are you about flying?

[apples and oranges]

5. Extremely confident
4. Somewhat confident
3. Neutral
2. Somewhat concerned
1. Extremely concerned

For those who are concerned, do you plan to cancel or postpone upcoming trips?

[Puzzledtraveller]

1. 1 for me

but because I hate flying, so no change here.

[uponit7771]

2. 5. Extremely confident - still safer than riding on the bus or a car with someone with ebola

... naw... they gotta get this in check.

I thought this virus was only taken in by someone who had DIRECT CONTACT with fluids.

I'm sure NONE of the nurses actually PURPOSEFULLY came into direct contact with the virus


something isn't adding up here

[bettyellen]

3. extremely confident- but I am going to East Africa, not West Africa.

You couldn't pay me to go to West Africa right now.

[dumbcat]

6. Uh, don't you

have that backwards? West Africa is where the Ebola outbreak is.

[bettyellen]

9. OMG- LOL, yes. Jeeze, was just explaining this a whole bunch last night. Fixed, thanks!

[liberal_at_heart]

4. 5. My husband flew to TX the same time that Duncan was in the hospital and flew back home

a little over a week ago.

[IDemo]

5. Haven't worked out in years

My arms are nowhere near strong enough.

[Earth_First]

7. Ba-zing! nt

[monmouth3]

8. I would cancel, not get involved with crowds at all..i.e. baseball, football games, movies. I had

polio. Swimming pools were shut down along with theaters and other crowd gathering places. Ebola and Polio are different I know but precautions can never hurt..

[randome]

10. Very.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[liberalmuse]

11. Not concerned at all.

Since I can't fly now that I'm working a low wage job that doesn't offer heath insurance for the first several months, along with no sick or vacation days.

[otohara]

12. I'm More Afraid of Guns

guns in stores, guns on campuses, guns in airports, guns in malls, guns are everywhere, Ebola, not so much.

Viruses suck, I've had a lifetime of braces, pain, ridicule, abuse, teasing, pain, weakness, problems buying shoes, fired for being disabled, and did I mention pain? 58,000 American's mostly children got this virus 1954. The hospital told my mother it was the flu and wanted to send me on my merry way. Gee, that sounds familiar?

I'd fly in a heartbeat - but only if I were going to Japan.

[Stallion]

13. 5

unless plane gets hit by Texas downburst

[FLPanhandle]

14. 5. Driving is far more dangerous

To quote one study "Researchers at Cornell University found that because more people drove instead of taking a plane in the three months after 9/11, there were an additional 725 fatalities from car crashes than during the same period in the previous year. A study by Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute took a different tack and came up with a higher figure -1,018 more traffic fatalities than would have been expected based on earlier trends."

So between 725 and 1,018 people additional people died because of fear of getting on a plane. People are far more safe flying on a plane than driving but some people will start doing that.

[seveneyes]

15. Zero.0

5 if I'm doing the piloting and it's my aircraft.

[stevenleser]

16. 2 nt

[Brother Buzz]

17. Extremely confident with one caveat:

Never, ever, fly with a one eyed pilot