TSA no longer enforcing US mask mandate
May 7, 2022, 3:26 pm
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May 7, 2022, 4:35 pm
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May 8, 2022, 9:11 am
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May 8, 2022, 10:16 pm
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Communicable viruses have quite the history of spreading along busy transport centers/routes, and there is no good reason to conclude that this would not remain the case with the spread of Covid-19 infections. And the TSA’s anti-mask mandate applicable to travelers has been in place before and since the Florida judge killed the mask-required mandate in mid-April 2022. But now the number and proportion of people wearing masks at TSA-staffed airports has declined such that it would require a suspension of disbelief to think that zero cases have to do with people no longer masking as much on public transportation in the US now as was the case 30 days prior.
May 9, 2022, 4:17 am
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I suspect what a lot of people are "actually" thinking is more along the lines of "there are enough other vectors, etc. out there for the virus to spread freely that trying to assert a direct connection between dropping the mask mandate on planes and rising cases is dubious, since any 'new wave' of the virus would have innumerable other vectors through which to spread".
May 9, 2022, 7:20 am
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May 9, 2022, 9:02 am
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As opposed to the screen door on a submarine theory? Absolutely comical watching people in cloth masks halfway down their faces at this point.
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May 9, 2022, 9:38 am
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Today, I will shave for the first time in about 2 years and 2 months. Never had grown a beard in my life, but the first time I was required to put one of those stupid things on my face, I felt the need to protest. Not shaving was my little protest. My initial thought was I would let it grow until I could get on a plane again without a mask. I only expected that to last a couple months. After about 6 months, I broke down and trimmed it a bit. I have trimmed it probably a half dozen times over the 2 years, but still have had a pretty full (and not very well kept) beard. Tomorrow is my first flight since the mandates were overturned.
May 9, 2022, 10:22 am
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Today, I will shave for the first time in about 2 years and 2 months. Never had grown a beard in my life, but the first time I was required to put one of those stupid things on my face, I felt the need to protest. Not shaving was my little protest. My initial thought was I would let it grow until I could get on a plane again without a mask. I only expected that to last a couple months. After about 6 months, I broke down and trimmed it a bit. I have trimmed it probably a half dozen times over the 2 years, but still have had a pretty full (and not very well kept) beard. Tomorrow is my first flight since the mandates were overturned.
May 11, 2022, 9:34 pm
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As noted...
Unruly air passenger rates declined in the U.S. after mask mandates were suspended
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/u...incidents.html
I still think the mask mandate was sound policy, but the numbers do not lie.
Lolololololol
Well, there are major disruptions, but mainly due to a major pilot shortage that the airline decided to create for themselves.
Unruly air passenger rates declined in the U.S. after mask mandates were suspended
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/u...incidents.html
I still think the mask mandate was sound policy, but the numbers do not lie.
Lolololololol
I remember several on here predicting doom and gloom when the plane mask mandate ended, that pilots would be dropping like flies, calling in sick and schedules (delays/cancellations) would go to hell.
I haven’t heard of that being the case at all. In fact, on a side note, plane incidents have decreased significantly over the past 2 1/2 weeks.
I haven’t heard of that being the case at all. In fact, on a side note, plane incidents have decreased significantly over the past 2 1/2 weeks.
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May 14, 2022, 9:00 pm
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Today, I will shave for the first time in about 2 years and 2 months. Never had grown a beard in my life, but the first time I was required to put one of those stupid things on my face, I felt the need to protest. Not shaving was my little protest. My initial thought was I would let it grow until I could get on a plane again without a mask. I only expected that to last a couple months. After about 6 months, I broke down and trimmed it a bit. I have trimmed it probably a half dozen times over the 2 years, but still have had a pretty full (and not very well kept) beard. Tomorrow is my first flight since the mandates were overturned.
May 15, 2022, 10:37 am
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When I saw people with big beards and masks I always thought it would be bit less restrictive since the mask didn't fit tight to their face. Do you notice better air movement with the mask over a beard compared to clean shaven? I don't grow a lot of facial hair and my wife HATES when I do so I never got to really try it.