If the cabin depressurises, a little oxygen mask pops down from the top. You have a few seconds to put this on your face before you're unconscious¹, and a few minutes after that for somebody else to put it on your face before you're dead. Try doing that while inside a tent.
(I'm don't know whether this conclusion is statistically valid, considering how few non-Boeing's have been depressurising v.s. the proportion of the population with COVID-19, but it feels intuitively right, and that's how these decisions have been made lately.)
¹: read "not usefully conscious"; you might still be awake, but your brain won't be doing much thinking or hand-moving.
If the cabin depressurises, a little oxygen mask pops down from the top. You have a few seconds to put this on your face before you're unconscious¹, and a few minutes after that for somebody else to put it on your face before you're dead. Try doing that while inside a tent.
(I'm don't know whether this conclusion is statistically valid, considering how few non-Boeing's have been depressurising v.s. the proportion of the population with COVID-19, but it feels intuitively right, and that's how these decisions have been made lately.)
¹: read "not usefully conscious"; you might still be awake, but your brain won't be doing much thinking or hand-moving.