how long until we start seeing the massive societal effects of this level of panic. It’s not going to be long. I would assume we start seeing drop offs in air travel and trust in air travel over the next two weeks to a month max. if there any more large scale public crashes.. it’s faster - ThreadSky

brainnotonyet.bsky.social • 5 days ago

how long until we start seeing the massive societal effects of this level of panic. It’s not going to be long. I would assume we start seeing drop offs in air travel and trust in air travel over the next two weeks to a month max. if there any more large scale public crashes.. it’s faster

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45xiatai.bsky.social•5 days ago

How would we reality-check this prediction? (In other words, how will we check how much air travel there is over the next few months?) There is seasonal variation in air travel (less travel at this time in February than when the peak spring break season for schools and colleges is, so there /1

45xiatai.bsky.social•5 days ago

will be some variation that will have to be seasonally adjusted for. If the Transportation Security Administration continues to gather and routinely report airport screening statistics—not a given under the Trump regime—we will have some good data for reality-checking this prediction, and if we /2

45xiatai.bsky.social•5 days ago

hear from industry associations of travel industry participants like airlines and hotels, we may have a reality-check on that reality check, but to make a prediction like this in a testable way is to commit to a set of numbers, knowing what past years showed as travel trends in February & March /3

45xiatai.bsky.social•5 days ago

in the United States. I'm willing to be persuaded by data, but who is committing in advance to check the data?
(Much the same considerations apply to calls to not buy at stores on a certain day, or to hold a general strike on a certain day. How can we tell what the response is?) /4 of 4

calicobarbarian.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think in that time, they threaten lawsuits against reports on plane crashes.

katterbug.bsky.social•5 days ago

Depends on your proximity to these programs. Don't think we'll have a full scope of the damage done for a decade.

thryse.com•5 days ago

When it gets bad enough it forms a pretext for more drastic fascist action, like dissolving the FAA, grounding all flights, and closing the borders

thryse.com•5 days ago

Even so far as an push for explicit, statutory resegregation and concentration camps on the grounds that minorities are actively sabotaging

thryse.com•5 days ago

If this sounds ridiculous to you, IT LITERALLY HAPPENED LESS THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, HERE!

kitncaboodle.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wish we had high speed trains to take up the slack.

hotgirlchristmas.bsky.social•5 days ago

We're experiencing 15 9/11s a day

flosssinger.bsky.social•5 days ago

They're going to sell the airlines for parts and ultimately reduce capacity for flights all together
Also think of all the TSA agents (disabled, seniors, veterans) they're itching to fire

shademar.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, they had to do massive exclusive gov't contracts to keep AA and United from going under post 9/11, and those were caused by external forces.

Air travel stops, economy stops, egg not matter any more.

marshviper.bsky.social•5 days ago

it's interesting, the airlines have been chafing at FAA safety regulations forever, but it never occurs to them that if they smash all that up and make air travel less safe, it craters their customer base.

I'm already seeing people talk about changing their travel plans.

thryse.com•5 days ago

The entire country has been operating in a state of hard delusion for decades, completely dissociated from fundamentals.

thryse.com•5 days ago

We talk about bubbles, we are in a multi-decade economic & material distortion that ends in a financial mushroom clloud

marshviper.bsky.social•5 days ago

well *I* haven't but I take your point 😆

thryse.com•5 days ago

I mean, “business” now takes material conditions that are the direct result of decades of policy to be somehow immutable facts of nature

thryse.com•5 days ago

Like your workers not beating you to death in your office and running your body through the machinery before stringing you up for photos. That’s a policy choice.

thryse.com•5 days ago

And they think they don’t need that anymore, they’ll be fine by magic

marshviper.bsky.social•5 days ago

UGH YES

it's kinda reminding me of that asshole at politico who didn't know who FDR was until someone emailed him and he looked at Wikipedia

people know nothing and therefore have no context for anything, they just live in the eternal present

kill it with fire please

thryse.com•5 days ago

Ugh yes

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