The change is motivated by science demonstrating that the majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness, generally in the 1-2 days prior to onset of symptoms and the 2-3 days after.

If employees are vaccinated (many companies have policies in place that you MUST be in order to continue working for them anyway) I can see this as being feasible.

Fun fact.

Given the CDC has updated their general guidance to this, and that this isn’t an airline specific thing, it seems like they feel the data indicates for the change.

I had read rumors about 10 days being too long for the vaccinated for a while. I don’t think this was just because “Delta asked”.

Whatever you think of the policy, Omicron is the beginning of the end of treating COVID as a pandemic. It will just be treated as another seasonal respiratory disease. A lot of it is just the reality that it’s now so contagious that pretty much everyone is gong to be exposed if they haven’t been already. What happens…

Not an exemption. That would indicate it was just for Delta, or you know, just for airlines:

[insert Madonna “Reductive...Look it Up” gif here]

Or, you know, maybe there’s enough scientific data now to support such a change.

(Now waiting for the polar opposite conspiracy article headline “CDC Had Data Since Last Year Which Could Have Limited COVID Quarantine Time”...I’m sure it probably already exists)

Does the new CDC guideline apply to all airline employees, or only vaccinated ones? Because the second is what the airline industry was lobbying for... (https://jalopnik.com/thousands-of-flights-cancelled-over-holiday-weekend-due-1848274635)

Eh, this sounds like Delta asked the question that should be asked, which is: “Does what we know now, and the situation we’re in now, warrant continuing with a policy that’s from a year prior (give or take) and when we didn’t have the protections we have in place now?”

I realize that you probably didn't write the headline Adam, but anyone who thinks the issues mentioned are "chilling" really hasn't worked for some of the many sub-standard employers in just about any field.  

Has been perplexing me for months. 100% this site uses Musk articles as a proxy for pro union commentary. It’s nuts. Regardless of which side you come down on the issue, the naïveté with which these articles are written serve no actual purpose. Furthermore, it’s painfully obvious Jalopnik writers have very little…

I work 12 hour days too and I don’t even get to go to Monaco.

It does on some level though. A lot of the complaints are about things like days on the road; which are critical for the job and they knew about before taking it. It’s like a sailor complaining about being on a boat all the time.

Interesting. I had been looking for an explanation and yes I suppose this could be it, though I suspect it has to do with money through “motivated and targeted advertisers” of some kind

F1 reminds me a lot of American Football in that the sport comes before everything and anything else. And it’s expected that everyone associated with it - from the players and coaches right to the crew and staff - hell - to the fans themselves buys in completely.  And sacrifices themselves at its altar. 

For anyone that has seen the many SpaceX fan channels on YouTube about Starship and Boca Chica, seeing Musk around there is normal. I’ve seen them.. with him hot and exhausted.

Implying the poster is licking Elon’s ass & that doing so is a bad thing that shows fewer morals than the poster says they have is an insult to everyone who genuinely likes to eat ass & is homophobic if you think the poster’s a male.

You realize my day is now going to consist of Austin Powers clips on Youtube, don’t you?

I have it on good authority that Formula 1 is no longer a sport: