Airlines' mask mandates may soon be REINSTATED
as DOJ appeals ruling by Trump-appointed
judge that struck down face covering requirement
on public transportation
Daily Mail (UK) & Reuters,
by
Melissa Koenig
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/1/2022 12:31:20 AM
Those flying throughout the United States may soon have to put their masks back on, as the Department of Justice has filed an appeal of an April decision that ended the unpopular mask mandate on planes and public transit. The Centers for Disease Control had first implemented the mandate in February 2021 amid rising COVID cases, but as the number of cases started to drastically decline the mandate became unpopular among both passengers and crew members.
In fact, during a Senate hearing about the financial support airlines received in 2020 and 2021, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and Southwest CEO Gary Kelly spoke out against the mandate.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/1/2022 12:45:19 AM (No. 1172007)
Just stop it. This is OVER. And masks do NOT WORK.
75 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 6/1/2022 2:04:19 AM (No. 1172022)
Passengers should be given the option of wearing a mask or carrying a lucky rabbits foot. Both are equally effective in preventing the spread of viruses.
78 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 6/1/2022 2:06:38 AM (No. 1172024)
Just trying to gin things up so that the uninformed public thinks there's another danger out there -- and will be more likely to accept mail-in ballots, drop boxes, etc. again this year.
49 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 6/1/2022 5:30:46 AM (No. 1172063)
Gee, and after two decades of abuse at the boarding gate I still dont fly. The airlines can all go bankrupt for all I care.
33 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rinktum 6/1/2022 5:54:44 AM (No. 1172074)
Democrats must control the great unwashed masses. They can’t allow them to get all uppity and refuse the diktats of their illegitimate overlords. Masks do not stop the virus. They do, however, indicate who are the submissive among us. They also give the virtue signaling orcs an excuse to harass people who understand this is a means of control. Just sit tight. Fuel prices are going to force the average Joe to stay home anyway.
34 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rich323 6/1/2022 5:56:00 AM (No. 1172075)
I see this as an attempt to put airlines out of business for green new deal - reduce fossil fuel usage and to control our range of travel. Only elites will fly in their private jets while we bumble along one charging station to the next in electric vehicles.
25 people like this.
If there was a problem with people spreading the rona from no masks on airplanes there would be top of the fold headlines in every major newspaper.
25 people like this.
The DOJ's involvement provides (unwitting) proof that this is strictly about government tyranny. They refuse to take a loss.
They may find that the greatest uproar will come from airline and airport employees who had to wear the damn things every single day and, in the end, were the most vocal about disliking masks.
As others have noted, the most bizarre aspect is that this is dogged pursuit of something completely futile in disease control. And now numerous studies are actually proving that mask use for any purpose is deleterious to health.
26 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 6/1/2022 7:10:33 AM (No. 1172118)
Nothing for safety, everything for control !
25 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/1/2022 7:16:34 AM (No. 1172125)
Merrick Garland is a true idiot!! Never thought there would be an AG worse than Eric Holder, and here we have puppet Garland
23 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Daisymay 6/1/2022 7:31:22 AM (No. 1172139)
People who feel safer wearing a Mask wherever they go can wear one. Nobody is stopping Them. Every so often I see ONE in the Grocery store or a Restaurant, but that's about it it. People are over COVID! More and more information comes out every day stating the Vaccines hurt us as much as they helped (for 30 days). I am not going to get any more Boosters and neither are many of my Friends. Here in Florida we never did have a Mask Mandate, so we're not used to wearing them when we travel. I'm going to hate it if they mandate them again on Airplanes. Even Cruise Ships have dropped the Mandate!
19 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
privateer 6/1/2022 7:39:48 AM (No. 1172147)
Trans Granny Clampett is doing exactly what he was appointed to do. He is a soul-less rubber stamp for all insane and tyrannical policies.
14 people like this.
Just say no. Loudly and often.
19 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
msjena 6/1/2022 7:50:14 AM (No. 1172157)
Appeals tend to move slowly so I don't think a mandate will be reinstated soon. Also, this case wasn't filed in the 9th Circuit or DC. The CDC's chances are not so good outside of a friendly jurisdiction.
11 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
smokincol 6/1/2022 8:05:25 AM (No. 1172176)
there has never been a time in our history that the federal government is actively working to harm the people of this country and their opportunity opening was when the worst possible candidate in the demcommie party was illegitimately elected to the office of president. he campaigned from his home (in his basement, studio) and only rarely ventured out to be seen or heard by the miniscule numbers of people allegedly enthusiastically seeking his election. how have we come so far down the cultural and ethical ladder that this kind of political disaster occurred?
11 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/1/2022 8:13:54 AM (No. 1172184)
I hate flying! I'm not afraid of it, but the hoops you have to jump through and now adding masks.....I'll never get on a plane. Never.
14 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 6/1/2022 8:21:24 AM (No. 1172190)
Once they gain a foot-hold in regulating us more, there is no going back.
12 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/1/2022 9:10:42 AM (No. 1172250)
Yeah, ok DOJ. Try reinstating mask mania. Then let's see how well the airlines are doing when Jet-A costs push them to the brink of insolvency while pleading with us to fly with them.
7 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
NamVet70 6/1/2022 9:31:49 AM (No. 1172286)
That is really going to go over well isn't it? Please don't do it until closer to the mid-terms elections.
10 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
red1066 6/1/2022 9:46:15 AM (No. 1172313)
If they think they had a passenger problem before with mask wearing, they haven't seen anything yet if they pull this stunt again.
8 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
TLCary 6/1/2022 9:50:24 AM (No. 1172320)
"WHY". COVID didn't spike, so it's not public health. It's very unpopular with the voters. The SCOTUS won't put up with it. So WHY are they doing it? Are the so sure of Dominion Voting Systems that they really don't care at all? Do they enjoy the rush of power so much that they think NAZI armbands were trite because they didn't require the subjects under their control to wear them over their mouths? Is it petty vengeance? WHY?
7 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/1/2022 9:51:22 AM (No. 1172322)
The airlines should inform the government that federal air marshals and/or federal police agents will be required on all planes to enforce the governments rules. The airline flight attendants should NEVER have been compelled to become the government's policemen in the skies.
The airlines need to get serious about this or the US government (the single largest threat to freedom atm) is going to put them out of business all in the name of "climate change" ... but the truth is simply the needed control of the populace for the elites' tyrannical plan to turn us all into serfs once again.
7 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 6/1/2022 9:55:40 AM (No. 1172326)
If you are afraid of getting sick, wear a mask, but it doesn't make sense to require everyone else to mask up as well.
9 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kafka2 6/1/2022 9:57:22 AM (No. 1172330)
The DOJ whats to get on the power trip of imposing mandates on the general public. It doesn’t matter that the masks available to the general public have been proven worthless in protecting against Covid. The Democrats need to create a health crisis to justify suspending the voting rules that prevent fraudulent ballots. That is the only way they have a well diggers chance of surviving the midterm election.
9 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 6/1/2022 9:57:54 AM (No. 1172331)
*hit submit too soon* You don't ask the people around you to throw on parkas because YOU are feeling cold!! That doesn't make sense either!
10 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/1/2022 10:15:30 AM (No. 1172352)
I don't think it will be repealed. It would put the airlines back into no customers mode, and the government back into printing more money to support the airlines.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 6/1/2022 10:55:10 AM (No. 1172407)
Our government, our politicians, are using our taxpayer money to bribe the airlines to implement their tyranny. The root of all evil is the love of money. The airlines have become dependent on the Govt. for their income, therefore, they are slaves.
Yesterday we talked about how the government's tentacles have reached into every area of our lives, whether health or business. Looks like we are already in socialism. God help us!
5 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 6/1/2022 11:00:18 AM (No. 1172413)
I would like to add a postscript. Will we be willing slaves to our government that's becoming(or become) socialist (One World Government) or will we fight back? Vote, pray, call, talk, walk the precincts...whatever you feel led to do.
6 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/1/2022 11:10:08 AM (No. 1172427)
And once again...the gooberment tries to exercise it "control" over Americans...well folks..it won't work...this weekend was a clear indicator of what Americans feel...it was open and celebratory and fun...no masks anywhere and fauci can't bully US into putting masks on...that don't work anyway...let's think about this...IF masks don't work..then WHY...because it gives Washington power and control...the china virus is here to stay..and WE'll fight it and them as best WE can...buy made in America items and shut out china...
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Ruhn 6/1/2022 12:19:35 PM (No. 1172505)
If DOJ wins on appeal (problematic for any success at this point) the voting public will remember this with a vengeance going into the midterm elections.
2 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
garyhope 6/1/2022 3:06:37 PM (No. 1172669)
"The root of all evil is the love of money."
No,....The root of all evil is the lack of money.
There,...fixed it for ya.
0 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
garyhope 6/1/2022 3:16:02 PM (No. 1172675)
I enjoy and get a laugh out of seeing morons wearing masks while driving their cars alone in the middle of nowhere. Also solo walkers walking in empty city locales or in the middle of a remote forest. Can you say 'Brainwashed"? Can you say "Stupid" or "Stoopid"
2 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/1/2022 7:33:02 PM (No. 1172921)
Good.
We want as many PO voters in the midterms we can get.
0 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 6/1/2022 9:21:45 PM (No. 1173016)
Our government HATES US.
0 people like this.
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