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Biden DOJ Actively Working to Reimpose Mask Mandates on Flights
American Greatness ^ | 18 Jan, 2023 | Eric Lendrum

Posted on 01/19/2023 5:56:32 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Biden Administration is actively working behind the scenes to try to re-implement a nationwide mask mandate on all air travel across the country, despite a court having ruled that such a mandate is unconstitutional.

The Daily Caller reports that on Tuesday, Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a Florida judge’s ruling in April of 2021 that struck down the mask mandate. This comes despite the fact that all 50 states and virtually every locality in the nation has dropped mask mandates as of early 2022; Biden himself declared in September of 2021 that “the pandemic is over.”

District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle was widely praised for her ruling, which determined that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) did not have the proper authority to issue such a wide-reaching mandate. Her ruling came just one week after Biden announced what was then the latest extension of the nationwide mask mandate that he first implemented in January of 2021; the extension would have lasted into mid-May had it not been for Judge Mizelle’s ruling.

“The Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disagree with the district court’s decision and will appeal,” the DOJ said in the immediate aftermath of Judge Mizelle’s decision. “The Department continues to believe that the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health. That is an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve.”

While the mask mandates were already widely unpopular, the mandate for keeping a mask on for the entirety of a flight was generally seen as the most hated of all the mandates, leading to a surge in unruly passengers across all airlines who vehemently disagreed with such a restriction. After the announcement that the mandate was struck down, there were widespread celebrations on flights across the country, with passengers and airline employees alike reveling in the news.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: covid
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1 posted on 01/19/2023 5:56:32 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Leftists pining for the good old days of the lockdowns.


2 posted on 01/19/2023 5:56:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Aside from the fact that we already know, haven’t they admitted masks don’t do anything useful?


3 posted on 01/19/2023 5:59:46 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Once a decision is made, it can NEVER be rescinded.

If they changed their position, it would mean The State _was_ wrong. But, if The State was wrong here, they could be wrong on something else!

Best not change anything.


4 posted on 01/19/2023 6:01:43 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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To: MtnClimber

Could be as simple as the mask manufacturers lobbying to make “mo’ money.”


5 posted on 01/19/2023 6:04:49 AM PST by Josa
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To: MtnClimber

Mandating a vax-free cockpit would make more sense.


6 posted on 01/19/2023 6:04:51 AM PST by ryderann
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To: MtnClimber
And those that will wear them...


7 posted on 01/19/2023 6:06:01 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MtnClimber

Have you seen the story of the woman in Toronto?

Mask related.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/01/patient-died-after-hospital-guards-tackled-her-for-mask-being-too-low/


8 posted on 01/19/2023 6:15:29 AM PST by MarMema (Biden = Americans Last)
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To: EEGator

But masks are useful for helping hide the identities of rioters and other criminals. The demonrats are just trying to make it easier for mayors and governors to mandate masks so that it is easier for criminals to be criminals.

Also, given that a lot of pilots have heart conditions due to the vaxseem, if people have to mask up to fly, some will adjust their summer vacation plans to do something that involves driving versus flying, thus lowering the number of planes in the air.


9 posted on 01/19/2023 6:22:12 AM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

Almost as if it’s the plan…


10 posted on 01/19/2023 6:27:29 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ryderann

Good luck finding the pilots.


11 posted on 01/19/2023 6:28:18 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

They already vaccinated the pilots into heart failure. Which by the way invalidates your class one or class two pilots medical certificate merely by taking the vaccine jabs. Unreal.


12 posted on 01/19/2023 6:35:52 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: EEGator
Whether the masks are useful in preventing viral spread (they are not), is irrelevant.

It’s all about maintaining the fear and uncertainty, and perpetuating the “COVID” fraud. They can’t keep claiming emergency powers if they don’t keep up the pretense that “COVID” is everywhere, that it is incredibly dangerous, and that compliance with the absurd and tyrannical dictates of our “leaders”, is the only thing keeping us all from dying.

All lies, of course.

13 posted on 01/19/2023 6:37:43 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon

And by definition, anything perpetual is not an emergency.


14 posted on 01/19/2023 6:40:20 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Or as we say in IT, if everything is a P1, nothing is a P1.


15 posted on 01/19/2023 6:46:12 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MtnClimber

TBH, masks on airplanes are a good idea - but not the mandate. Being in such close proximity to total strangers who may carry cold, flu or even COVID, a small bit of air protection is actually smart. I understand the masks aren’t foolproof and I understand some think these are like face condoms where nothing could be further from the truth. But if it gets me from Point A to Point B without picking up other people’s germs, I’m all for it as long as it is MY choice to do so, not the government insisting I do it.


16 posted on 01/19/2023 6:47:23 AM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: Sicon

It was the same for me at a utility company. Every job was somehow a top priority. I got “in trouble” a bunch of times for publicly mocking managers’ stupidity.


17 posted on 01/19/2023 6:51:19 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Why is the DOJ involved with health?


18 posted on 01/19/2023 7:22:56 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

That’s my question. Merrick Garland must need a distraction from the Biden Files.


19 posted on 01/19/2023 7:33:31 AM PST by vivenne
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To: vivenne

Or they are planning to charge for criminal acts...


20 posted on 01/19/2023 7:44:37 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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