I was pretty amazed to Discover that Spirit Airlines is doing round trip flights for $75 to Orlando from my local airport. If you’re in the Midwest in a midsized city that’s cold and dreary in winter there’s a good chance you can find a similar deal.

A lot of this interest in vitamin D is motivated by the desire to not die from getting infected with sars-cov-2. Or not dying in general. Travel like that is counter-productive currently.

I know different people have different risk tolerances, but there’s no way I would get on a plane during a pandemic if I don’t have to.

An airplane is probably a safer place to be than your local grocery store right now.

Unless airplanes are alternatives to grocery stores, even if that comparison was accurate it would be meaningless.

At the grocery store I can bolt at a moment’s notice if I see anything sketchy happening. No can do on an airplane. There could be a guy sitting next to me and coughing all over me for hours.

Am I the only one who finds it laughable to consider trusting the word of companies the likes of Delta, Southwest, and US Air? They seem fundamentally incompetent in pretty much every other aspect of anything that doesn't involve literally keeping the plane from crashing. Why would I believe the air filtration systems are even going to be operational, say nothing about effective when they are?

Pressurized airliners have about 15 air changes per hour or 3-4x what’s typical in an office building. This is air exchanges with the outside, not filtration cycles which are in addition. Even if the filters were entirely INOP, I suspect you’re no worse off than sitting in an office building.

Now, I’m not doing that right now, but there’s little reason to think major US carriers aren’t doing what they say they’re doing and if the air change mechanism wasn’t working, you’d see oxygen masks deploying as that’s the mechanism by which the aircraft remains pressurized.

Sitting in an office building is one of the worst places you can be for avoiding getting sick.

Kids kind of makes it all pointless. They catch everything and bring it home.

It was nice not being sick for so many months.

2 weeks after they went back. Bam, everyone sick.

And that’s with intense mask rules and distancing

You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean that we can't take other measures to get back below R=1. The primary one I can think of is for governments of the world to give long term contracts to N95 mask makers so they can fully spin up their factories. It's been 9 months for $diety's sake.

Non-fit homemade and non-rated masks help prevent others from getting sick. But if everyone had access to cheap N95 that actually prevented them from getting sick we'd be a lot better off. The kids would still be getting it and getting everyone sick at home/school because they wouldn't wear them consistently right, but people without kids at home wouldn't be getting sick at nearly the rate. Every bit counts.

Maybe the masks and distancing don't actually work?

I don't know if this is mind blowing or not because people don't seem to use it but...

If you live in a suburb or further out, basically every major grocery chain does pickup orders.

I order online, drive to the store, and an employee puts the groceries in my trunk. I never go inside.

It's also... free. So anyone with a car(most of us in the USA/CA) can do it.

Congratulations, you have proposed the least ecologically sustainable vitamin boost I've ever heard. Every day brings new surprises.