Celebrations Break Out In Mid-Air As Mask Requirements Are Removed; Is This The Ideal Mask Off-Ramp For The Biden Administration?

Imagine (lehavdil) when they announce moshiach’s arrival on all the planes!

What about testing to enter the United States?

Biden’s afikomen present!

Whoever is upset may feel free to continue wearing masks when they fly.

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My Southwest flight to Orlando (maybe the first SW flight without the mask requirement) cheered the announcement as well.

Finally. However I hope that passengers won’t fly when symptomatic. I’ve had flights where I’m cringing because an adjacent passenger is coughing up a lung and sneezing.

Any update with int’l airlines arriving or departing USA? Do they base it on their own countries rules, or based on O&D?

Canceled 2 flights. I’m sure the increase in cases means this is temporary.

Airlines know us wealthy, intelligent people won’t fly without masks being required. The poor hayseed Trumpers don’t fly much besides low revenue fares.

This just goes to show, that retroactively, these disposable masks were NEVER a deterrent to Covid. Covid is spread airborne. A worthless mask or a plastic partition by the bima was all for show, for theater. Now we can sit back and say, who was the idiot???

Well I flew out of Trenton today around 4:30pm after hearing the news from no one other than @dansdeals himself and I asked the crew if they were dropping the requirement, the response was NO!

It’s a shame because the Stewardess on flight kept on enforcing it even when we landed and getting off the plane!

do we have any info yet on how this will effect international travel to israel on elal?

So does it mean that this stupid tyranny by these nincompoop stewards will come to an end, or is it a new era where those ego inflated lowlife stewards will forever remain little putins, and the stupid airlines kicking off anyone that doesn’t go along with the tyranny?

Wait, some actual GOOD NEWS?? Pinch me, I must be dreaming.

All the bad things happen when Jewish people get involved in politics. Just have your faith and shut up. And stop voting for Pigs no matter what political party they are.

Yeah, the next thing is to remove the speed limits and seatbelt requirements and let all stupid people die. I can’t wait to see that.

Masks never helped. It was all a pretense of “doing something” but has over and over again been proven ineffective.

https://www.city-journal.org/the-failed-covid-policy-of-mask-mandates

We all know that if Trump Air was still around, they wouldn’t make masks optional. They would downright ban masks.

“Reactions from many people on Twitter were angry, with people incredulous that the news onboard planes was greeted so enthusiastically. But perhaps that shows just how much of an echo chamber social media can be.”
Be mindful of your own bias here. DD itself is an echo chamber across multiple social media. I think the issue here is one of salience. I am an evidence-based doctor who works in a hospital and has treated scores of Covid patients. Based on my knowledge and the credible scientific evidence, I believe masking is still necessary for prevention (which always takes precedence in public health above treatment) and protection of the many who are at high risk (e.g., immunocompromised like myself).
However, the people who believe in masking and the people who are at high risk are in the vast minority. As such, I assure you that they are indeed on the planes but that because of the social pressures of being in the minority mean that they’re not going to be speaking up and asking that all those celebrating, shouting people wear their masks. So you don’t see them, and you don’t hear them. But they are there, and they are not few. Lol yisrael areivim ze la’zeh.
Similarly, the question of salience applies to consequences of infection. The most salient consequence is death. Deaths are down, as our hospitalizations, so it’s understandable to think that Covid is gone, or harmless. But less salient is the chronic if not lifelong dysfunction that long-Covid brings. They are not as easily reported in sound bites or statistics, so you don’t see them, and you don’t hear them. But they are there, and they are not few (yes, even in Chassidic communities that never masked).

Well, this is what we get when a judge with appallingly minimal legal experience (Mizelle was rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Association prior to her appointment by Trump) and zero public health experience weighs in on a politicized public health issue.
Per significant legal precedent, the CDC was absolutely not overstepping their authority.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2112193

Hi Dan,
I disagree with the fact that because a judge dropped it was better for the administration because
1. The fact that it came from the courts shows how there was never a real legal basis for it (the same way the court shot down the workplace vaccine mandate)
2. It will be remembered that it needed to be done by a court, meaning the Biden administration is just a bunch of radicals (and it will only continue to hurt the Dems). If the Biden administration would do it themselves then their chances of trying to recover their stupidities would have some hope.
3. Airline CEOs were pleading for a while to have these dropped and they were ingnored
4. These new variants for all practical purposes won’t cause any real damage. Most of the country is already immune through the vaccine or natural immunity.

The mask maybe made sense the first 30 days of the start of the pandemic, to try to curb an unknown virus, but after that its pointless. Trusty Fauci, said himself it wasn’t a good idea or necessary, then he said he said that because he didn’t want everyone to hoard the masks. The left probably had seen a opportunity to instill fear. The libs weren’t crying to him about that flop, strange. We now have the Trump vaccine, you know, the ones the left said they would never take, we have more data now, and weakened variants that don’t effect the lungs.

” But with BA.2 cases increasing, it would face heavy criticism for removing the mask mandate” -q: by whom? a few fringe forever maskers or fake news media??

please ask the 10% who voted no to explain clearly why?

So much ignorance in America when people be believe masks and mitigations don’t work while some of us doctors have been treating Covid patients over 2 years with proper masks and have never been infected . In Japan people wear masks even since before Covid when they’re sick , intelligent on their part

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Hey Dan. What’s the point of noting that the judge is 35 years old? Would you have noted their age if they were 46 or 58 or 72?

Does being 35 disqualify this judge from making a ruling?