Posted on 12/15/2020 4:20:23 AM PST by Kaslin
You may have seen the video of the family thrown off a United Airlines airplane because the 2-year-old daughter would not wear a mask. Though the family wore masks and the father promised to cover his daughter's face with a mask that he placed on her face, it made no difference. Though the child was completely asymptomatic, and though it is exceedingly rare for a child to transmit COVID-19 to an adult -- that is why Sweden kept its schools open all spring and summer, with its students not wearing masks -- the airline had its orders, and the flight attendant duly obeyed them.
As I watched the video, I wondered what the flight attendant thought. For example, did he think this was absurd, not to mention cruel? Did he know that 2-year-olds present virtually no health risk? Did he wonder why adults can sit without masks inches from other passengers while eating but a 2-year-old seated only next to family needed a mask?
Or did he think he was performing a noble service in kicking a family off an airplane because their 2-year-old wouldn't wear a mask?
I hope he thought he was enforcing an idiotic rule and had no choice. Then there is hope for him and for America. Otherwise, he's an irrational automaton, among the scariest people in any society.
Does United Airlines think it's enforcing a rational and humane policy, regarding 2-year-olds as dangerous disease spreaders?
Here is what we can assume:
United Airlines has made the calculation that if it doesn't enforce every directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two bad things will result: 1) People will be too scared to fly United; 2) If anyone gets COVID-19 after a United flight on which a 2-year-old was allowed to fly without a mask, the airline will be sued.
Regarding children and mask-wearing, the CDC website states, "Masks should NOT be worn by children under the age of 2." The CDC capitalizes "NOT."
So, while the CDC is adamant children under the age of 2 must NOT wear a face mask, a child who just turned 2 constitutes a mortal danger to others on the plane -- and must be ejected from the plane if she just won't cover her face.
Welcome to America in 2020.
It is not overstated to declare the year 2020 the year it became legitimate to question whether America could still declare itself either "the Land of the Free" or "the Home of the Brave." Maybe it really is time to replace the national anthem with some other song that doesn't have us singing what so many of us no longer believe in. When half of America sings those words, they are no longer referring to themselves or what they want America to be. About half of us -- more or less, the half that voted Donald Trump for president -- still believes that America should be the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. But half of us, including the entire elite-- the major media; the entire educational system from elementary school through graduate school; national, most state and all major city bureaucracies; and the Democratic Party -- neither value freedom nor seek to be brave.
When I see Americans walking outdoors with masks on, my first reaction is to mourn the death of reason and my second is to wonder what college they attended. Because one of the many other awful things colleges do to most of their students is make them afraid: afraid not only of dying if they pass another human being while walking their dog but also of dying from global warming, and afraid of any ideas not inculcated into them by their school. That's why they and most of their professors object to conservatives speaking at their school. To the brainwashed, different ideas are frightening and make them feel "unsafe" (hence, "safe spaces" at so many colleges).
When viruses killed the equivalent of about 165,000 Americans in 1968 and about 225,000 in 1957 (numbers adjusted based on the current U.S. population), healthy Americans did not quarantine; no one hid behind masks; no school closed; no store or restaurant went out of business. Why? Because people understood that viruses and death are tragic parts of life, and it never occurred to them to deprive children of their studies, their friends and their childhood. It didn't occur to Americans that because some people contracted a virus and died, 99% of the population should stop living and earning livelihoods. In that America, the news media were not singularly dedicated to frightening Americans. And most important, the left had not yet succeeded in ruining the country; after all, far fewer Americans went to college at that time, and high school and elementary school teachers still viewed their vocation as a call to teach, not indoctrinate.
All of this explains how we got to the place where United Airlines could throw a 2-year-old girl off an airplane while presumably half the passengers supported her eviction and the other half was cowed into silence.
The first time I wore a mask I had trouble breathing. It is also hard for me to understand what people are saying when they talk to me, as it sounds like they are mumbling.
The same thing happens when they wear those shields
Look United doesn’t care, they never did before Covid. I have never had a good experience with United Airlines. I never fly United anymore. In fact I will deliberately pay for any other carrier that will get me there.
Why? Because United doesn’t care.
My daughter was planning a trip to visit family this month with her 2 year old.
She called American Airlines and asked them about their policy. They said kids over 2 should wear a mask, but was told “ we understand it can be difficult. All we ask is that you try to get a mask on the child, and that the parents are masked.”
I guess she will need to get that in writing before she flies.
There seems to be a racial component here and possibly a sexual one too.
My autistic son is 4 years old and they don’t make him wear one all day in preschool. Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The voice muffling is a real issue to me as well.
The author of this piece should get his head on straight and stop assuming that “freedom” means having the right to dictate to someone else how to run their business.
I’ll step up and just say it. Flying aint for everyone. And 2 year olds who cant follow the rules and their parents shouldnt fly commercial. And Im a strong believer who thinks the entire mask thing is b. S. I think afew people shouldnt fly. Like that woman who opens a gatl6ic salad on the plane and starts chowing down, or the perd6on with all their luggage who drags a huge back pack, a carry on and a shoulder bag and proceefs to clog ip the islr, trying to shove all that into thr overhead. .
15 Dec: Conservative Woman UK: Covid testing: We have a right to the facts on PCR
by Richard Tice
(Richard Tice is chairman of Reform UK, formerly known as the Brexit Party)
The Government’s whole Covid strategy since the summer has been centred around, and reliant upon, the mass testing regime; the much-heralded PCR swab tests and their network of Lighthouse laboratories. The test’s accuracy is essential and has driven all our leaders’ decisions across the four nations.
Now evidence is emerging that this test, when processed in these ‘gold standard’ labs, may have led us to the wrong location. In Italy, legal actions are under way against PCR testing companies. A Portuguese court has ruled the PCR test unreliable, whilst Norway double checks positive PCR results with a second test; is that one of the reasons why their cases are lower than ours? In the UK, reasons for doubt grow by the week. More and more results from the new lateral flow test (LFT) show sharp reductions in cases compared to PCR positives.
First it was Liverpool, where the LFT produced only 0.7 per cent positives, just one in five of the PCR positive results in the same community taken over the same period. Liverpool City Council said they would double-check all the LFT positives but have so far refused to produce the results...
The universities of Bristol, Birmingham and St Andrews have done more than 8,000 LFTs between them with just four positives, a rate of 0.05 per cent. Meanwhile at Cambridge University, in the week to December 6, their PCR results showed 11 positives, after being processed in their very own Cambridge Lighthouse laboratory, a rate of 0.5 per cent. But when these positives were double-checked with a second PCR test, all 11 were found to be false positive. That is 100 per cent false positives...
Meanwhile hospitals and ICU departments are no busier than expected every winter, indeed some are quieter, with fewer operations. All this while many thousands of excess deaths are occurring at home involving non-Covid issues, many of whom would surely have gone to hospital...
If the Government refuse to do the treble-check test, we have to ask why? If they are so confident in their PCR regime, why not prove it? What are they scared of? Surely key individuals will be keen to prove their accuracy to protect their reputations. The PCR mass testing regime is the bedrock foundation of this Government’s Covid strategy; it must be right to confirm its validity.
Of course, if mass PCR testing is proven to be unreliable, everything changes. Resignations would follow, the taxpayer can stop forking out large sums for inaccurate data and the incidence of the virus will be proven to be lower. We may then be able to get back to normal faster. We have the right to the facts.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covid-testing-we-have-a-right-to-the-facts-on-pcr/
We will find that wearing masks is a health risk
I would guess this is more about politics and persecution than virus.
The steward and his ilk are the sort of people Solzhenitsyn said to go after. Petty tyrants who further the master’s cause. Don’t ignore the masters though.
Apparently typing clear posts on FR ain’t for everyone, either ... but I agree with you! :-P
It’s been years since I flew. What about keeping small children under a blanket if they won’t wear a mask?
No airlines are transportation utilities not private businesses. They serve the public.
Masks are fomites. Of course they’re a health risk.
Your attitude is exactly why the airline industry operates the way it does. It is forced to cater to the whims of government bureaucrats and various assorted misfits who represent “the public” in some official capacity.
Plenty of businesses do not serve the public.
Ten to one a chinese operative is embedded within the company in a position to make these rules.
Like Air BNB and Uber, people need to make an app to set up charter flights on smaller airplanes.
Shooting babies in the head, virtually, by weaponizing money, speech and now travel.
This is communism.
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