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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ready from the eighties to today. One of six point
- 0:01Speaker 1: seven FM Good Morning Jack and for Cubby. Christina is
- 0:05Speaker 1: with us today and uh, well, I think it's spring break.
- 0:09Speaker 1: They spring break somewhere.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so we're all going to be traveling and yes,
- 0:13Speaker 2: sometimes via plane, right a lot of times.
- 0:17Speaker 3: And do you want the germiest seat on the airplane.
- 0:21Speaker 4: You can have it, thank you. I will offer it
- 0:23Speaker 4: to you.
- 0:24Speaker 3: Thank you, Jack, And I will take it because it's
- 0:26Speaker 3: the one I go for. So an infectious disease doctor
- 0:30Speaker 3: is telling us the germiest not one specific seat, but
- 0:34Speaker 3: in general seats on the plane are the aisle seats.
- 0:37Speaker 3: I was going to say the lou but yeah, that one,
- 0:40Speaker 3: I'm sure. But he said, try and avoid the aisle
- 0:44Speaker 3: seats because you have more of a chance of catching
- 0:46Speaker 3: something because everybody's brushing past you, yes.
- 0:49Speaker 4: Right, touching them and they rubbing against them.
- 0:52Speaker 3: And stop grabbing the seats as you go. You know,
- 0:55Speaker 3: when somebody's being.
- 0:57Speaker 4: Without grabbing the seat. I can't get on the long
- 0:59Speaker 4: island row without grabbing seats.
- 1:01Speaker 3: But when somebody's behind you and they get up and
- 1:03Speaker 3: they use your seat to pull themselves up, and you
- 1:06Speaker 3: go back and ah, that's crazy. So aisle seats expose
- 1:11Speaker 3: you to everyone who walks past up and down the aisle.
- 1:13Speaker 3: He says that forty percent of customers get up at
- 1:16Speaker 3: least once during a flight, two times or more, and
- 1:21Speaker 3: they may be coughing and sneezing and again grabbing as
- 1:24Speaker 3: they go. So the best place to sit to avoid
- 1:27Speaker 3: germs would be against the window.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Really, because most people sleep against the window with their
- 1:33Speaker 1: face pressed up against You.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Might want to use one of those pipes they give
- 1:37Speaker 3: you on when you get on the plane. Yes,