Posted on 04/26/2022 3:21:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
During a recent flight, across the aisle from me, a four-year-old named Olivia demanded to know why she had to wear a mask, while her little brother, who was wrestling their mother for control of an iPad, could go maskless. “Those are the rules” the poor woman said. “Not fair!” Olivia fired back.
On April 18, Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, from the Middle District of Florida, agreed with Olivia and threw out the mask mandate for airplanes, trains, and other public transportation. In her 59-page decision striking down the mandate, the judge cited the lack of public notice or comment on the rule, and also found the mandate as written to be “arbitrary and capricious.” Cheers went up on airplanes as the announcements were made.
The administration is smart to let the mandate die, but not smart enough to recognize that in their attempt to simultaneously defend their unpopular mask mandate, they are missing a golden opportunity to pivot towards humble, rational risk assessment. Instead, they are continuing to divide Americans into the compliant and uncompliant, the good and the bad, the masked and the unmasked, using paper shibboleths.
If the administration had successfully fought for a stay, the mask mandate would have been reinstated immediately, while their appeal would essentially fight the ruling without reinstating the mandate. Attorney General Merrick Garland was asked why he decided against the stay, which he called a “tactical strategy question.” So much for following the science.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In other words, the administration is happy that the mask mandate is ending, but needs to pretend like it is fighting for it.
Speaking of muzzles, this is from Upstate NY...
The expert is from Upstate Med, a SUNY medical school in Syracuse. Really makes you want to treat their grads with your health, doesn’t it...
Meanwhile, also from Upstate NY, looks like it’s all over but the shouting...
https://whcuradio.com/news/025520-tompkins-county-health-department-update-on-contact-tracing/
” The Tompkins County Health Department (TCHD) alerting the community that the New York State Virtual Call Center (NYS VCC) will end all services by May 1st.”
BTW, WTH is a “virtual” call center?!
Over the last two years, there is no collective group of people that has done more to destroy the credibility of their own profession than “public health experts.”
59 pages to strike down the mask mandate. How about only three words: masks don’t work. Brevity is the soul of wit.
I agree as long as you include doctors and nurses.
Ah, but CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health, has it...
Mark Twain: “I didn’t have time to write you a short note, so I wrote a long letter instead.”
Imagine how many scrolls the Declaration of Independence would fill if it was written today. And it’s unlikely Mel Brooks would be able to fit 15 commandments on 3 stone tablets.
That *expert* needs to lose his medical license.
Nothing he is advocating is actually working or is going to eradicate the Covid COLD virus.
Yahoo keeps posting articles that MOST Americans want masks and will continue to use them on the planes. Obviously projecting how they want the world to be and trying to influence the weakminded. They still don’t allow comments to most articles.
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