Airliners: Wrong Place For Bad Jokes

Here’s a tip: there may not be any good places to make jokes about having Ebola… but on board an airliner? Just about the *worst* possible place. Not only will you inconvenience, annoy and in some cases panic the other passengers, you will make the stewardess get on the PA system and call you an idiot.

At least the bulk of the passengers seen here seem to be taking it well. That seems to be one of the features of the Ebola outbreak… the authorities and the media are freaking the hell out, but the general populace? Meh.

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Yes, yes, freedom of speech. But airplanes have *long* been places of limited humor. Joking about hijackings or bombs, for instance, would get your kiester in a sling decades ago.

I have been giving vague consideration to flying back home a few months from now. But considering the state of my lungs, the crappy recycled quality of the air and the presence of coughing, hacking strangers in close proximity, I’d probably only do so wearing a dust mask or some such. But now I wonder: if I did so, would I cause a passenger, crew or official freakout? Or, perhaps, would I be just one of a number of passengers so equipped?