Comments on: The airline mask mandate appears to be over

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:59:10 +0000

I saw a clip of a near apoplectic Lawrence O’Donnell from MSNBC getting apoplectic over the judge and the lifting of mask mandates. The funniest was seeing Jeffrey Toobin of something called CNN getting bent out of shape over the decision. It is all about control.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:12:22 +0000

Masks work in controlled laboratory settings, including not touching them and disposing of them properly, which is to say in one sense, as the medical people do in surgical settings. In other words, as when in experimental arrangements.
Other than that……nothing.
And all other mask wearing you see collect the wearer’s “stuff” and the other stuff floating around.until you have a petri dish of warm, moist stuff, transferred to surfaces every time you touch it and then something else. In public areas, places you put your hands are places designed for you to put your hands which means somebody else did two minutes ago and will two minutes later. Door handles, stair rails, etc.
Masks in the usual way their users use them could be worse than nothing.

When the solution to the problem is that the government takes my money, my personal liberty and wants me to do stupid stuff, I question the premise.

By: physicsguy

physicsguy — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:30:52 +0000

As of this morning, the DOJ has announced they will appeal the mask ruling. Not sure how it’s going to go, but don’t throw away those masks yet.

Even if the appeal is successful, how do the Ds possibly think this is going to make them even more popular other than with the clueless 30%?

By: steve walsh

steve walsh — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:20:08 +0000

The Boston Globe today:
“How to weigh your risks as mask mandates lift
A high-quality mask still offers substantial protection to the wearer, even if others are maskless, doctors say.”

This points out the only problem I see with the rationale for the judge’s ruling: namely that the mandate is illegal having exceeded the government’s authority rather than because wearing a mask makes no difference in the transmission of the virus. This allows the government to justify reinstating the mandate provided they can find a way around the legal problems the judge identified.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:39:59 +0000

The headline says it all.
https://babylonbee.com/news/clever-second-graders-hold-class-on-an-airplane-so-they-wont-have-to-wear-masks

https://babylonbee.com/news/conservatives-assure-liberals-that-were-only-gonna-not-wear-masks-for-2-weeks-to-slow-spread-of-tyranny

https://babylonbee.com/news/grim-study-reveals-all-2-million-americans-who-flew-yesterday-are-now-dead-of-covid

https://babylonbee.com/news/7-ways-to-cope-now-that-you-cant-force-people-around-you-to-wear-masks

Especially for Neo — “One of the ways I dealt with it on the trip out here was to sip my club soda very very slowly, maskless. No one ever bothered me about it.”

https://babylonbee.com/news/judge-rules-that-airplane-passengers-no-longer-have-to-pretend-to-eat-for-5-straight-hours

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:21:16 +0000

Best meme ever, from the NTB post.
https://media.notthebee.com/articles/article-625eb949e0fab.jpg

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:15:19 +0000

Not the Bee and its sister-site The Babylon Bee are really becoming the easiest, and most entertaining way, to keep up on the news.

https://notthebee.com/article/these-on-plane-reactions-to-the-end-of-the-mask-mandates-reminds-me-of-the-ewoks-celebrating-after-the-death-star-blew-up-

And they have fun video clips.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 06:59:09 +0000

Be sure and look at the graph in this story.
The only problem with the judge’s decision is that it is late by 2 years.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/maskaholics-anonymous.php

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 06:11:43 +0000

@ Barry > ” doesn’t that mean that it “exceeded federal powers” from the get-go?”

Why yes, yes it does.
President Trump said in 2020, after the initial round of confusion, that the country should re-open by Easter.
He was right; sadly, he wasn’t effective.

@ physicsguy > “At least we can now identify them easily, anyone with a mask on”

I support the right of anyone to wear whatever facial covering they wish, although I hope that banks and other such establishments return to viewing covered faces with a suspicious eye.

By: Aggie

Aggie — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 02:09:59 +0000

“What a long strange masked trip it’s been – so far.”

That brings new meaning and context to the words, ‘Grateful Dead’, after this colossal public policy debacle