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US Senate Passes Resolution To End Airline Mask Rule
The United States Senate passed a resolution on Tuesday to end the public transport mask mandate, Senators voted and the resolution passed 57 votes to 40, Republican Senator Rand Paul introduced the resolution. The federal mask mandate which requires a mask to be worn on public transportation was set to expire on March 18, however, President Biden extended the mandate until April 18... (www.aviationweekly.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
So, if I choose to continue wearing a mask, will I be verbally attacked or do I get to exercise my freedom too?
I doubt anyone would care if you choose to wear a mask. The problem isn’t weather or not people wear masks, it’s that a lot of people don’t like to be told by the government that they have to wear one. Had this been handled differently and people were given the choice this would be a non issue.
How else can they say "you must wear a mask"?
Good point. I never imagined the day I'd be insulted for exercising caution. It's a world gone mad.
Medicine if full of examples of things that were ASSERTED to be true, HAD to be true, MUST be true - but turned out NOT to be true and in many cases when looked at in comprehensive longer term manner were proven to have actually caused overall harm rather than what some declared as locked-in obvious benefit. Such has been this shamefully preposterous masking especially in public spaces that for a wide variety of reasons some obvious some not (to the uninformed) convey, in the aggregate, NO additional risk of disease transmission. Last fall a very reputable public health, epidemiologist MD from Harvard teaching hospital showed that public transportation conveys no additional risk of disease. The greatest risk by far aside from some limited medical situations is within families and among sick friends and coworkers who have sustained substantial contact. It is not casual noninteractional passage in highly ventilated extremely large spaces such as airports shopping malls or sports venues where disease is transmitted. Who in the FAA is and has been responsible for this nonsense - should step forward and declare themselves so we can see who specifically are the idiot clowns. As for harm, i am not aware of any study that firmly establishes that mass masking is not actually harmfull, that it does not amplify the virus, that it does not increase the risk of pneumonia, that it does not cause fiber related harm, that it is not contributing to the forces causing potentially harmful virus adaptations. Furthermore the FAA is using obvious and ridiculous false logic in asserting that the covid incidence rates have been declining since end of Feb (very true) b/c of its obscene masking policy. That makes zero sense since during this interval masking everywhere in the US has been essentially rescinded. That there has not been a big increase in rates absolutely confirms that masking is and has been at best of no benefit, a waste of time, a deception diverting from other ideas that might have been better, far more focused, and more effective. This false logic promulgated by the arrogant fools at the FAA could just as well be extended to sports where obviously the reason why rates have fallen off the cliff is b/c the refs at the NCAAW basketball games are wearing masks (but not. refs at the mens games and not 99% of the millions of fans in the arenas). So the obvious farcical implied logic is that airports refs and some of the cheerleaders at NCAAW but not NCAAM's games are the cause of this (largely not to be seen ) so called epidemic. For some of us this was from the beginning media amplified overwrought gross BS and as all this unnecessary and very likely counterproductive nonsense has been rolled back it has revealed more and more by the gross obvious inconsistencies that the emperors of the obvious locked -in grand solutions have/had no clothes . They are what they are - a pack of fools.
What does it matter? Some appologists for this foolishness say - they were just trying . Oh really, well thats how one judges 8 yr olds. These stupid burocrats who measures resulted in higher and higher peaks to include the highest peak by far just a few months ago actually caused harm. The more the forced upon us the worse the rates became. We could not possibly have done worse if we had done nothing other that MDs stepping up to the plate and doing their jobs (instead they conceded to the fear and actually unbelievably and very shamefully refused to provide outpatient care to these patients so they ended up needing hospital care with all the dangers of hospitalization). These idiots should be held accountable for their arrogant foolishness. What did theri foolishness cost us and others? No a triffling: 4 trillion of government aid, shutting down means of production, causing huge supply chain disruptions that still linger, igniting inflation by th combined effects of printing money and causing production shutdowns, mass deprivations of basic rights and freedoms, distracting from a virus that could have been handled by our huge medical infrastructure that enabled the Chinese to use the virus as an excuse to shut down the large scale protests in HOng Kong and Myanmar, and distracting from the scrutiny on Rusia and Eastern Europe that could have potentially prevented the Ukrainian invasion by Russia. This all has been immensely costly (and as far as spead of the virus - ineffective) and we will continue to pay for this nonsense due to further reverberations of the second third and higher order adverse effects. But by then you can be these governments will again lead us into other calamities and disasters.
A tad verbose, Matt.