Fair enough, I didn't notice the sign.
The maskless passengers were coming from Ukraine. I also have a friend who was fully vaccinated and went to a vaccine/testing required event and got breakthrough COVID, so if you're coming from a place with an 8% vaccination rate I don't believe it's impossible for you to give me COVID.
BTW, not sure why you're calling it a rant, it was one sentence about the lounge: "in Warsaw, lounge staff were not wearing masks". The airplane part was definitely a rant
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My point is not actually that masks should be required on airplanes. My point is that all the passengers explicitly agreed to follow the COVID-19 rules and US laws on check-in, and the law says that all flights into the United States are masks required. Flight attendants ignored the laws, and the passengers decided that they were public health experts while putting others at risk. (Since masks protect others, not yourself, and they were coming from a country with a low vaccination rate.)
That said: look at Florida if you want evidence that decent vaccination rates + "common sense" are not sufficient to save lives of the elderly. And, BTW, probably in Poland too if you look at
excess deaths rather than confirmed-COVID deaths:
Edit: Actually I'm a little confused
hugolover because of your footnote about double masking - maybe I misinterpreted what you were saying?