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.
That's why I'm consistent in applying principles of private business ownership here.
A private company SHOULD be able to discriminate on the basis of color, creed, etc.
What would be the odds of anything happening if the couple were say, black or Muslim?
I think we all know the answer.
What’s a gatl6ic salad?
Last time I flew was on United. They gave me one of their tighty whitey masks. They are three layer. I cut two of the layers out, scrubbed the last layer to thin the cloth and it’s been my go-to mask ever since whenever I encounter a Karen with any kind of authority. I even added coffee stains. It looks really gross. My wife stopped me from adding ketchup and mustard stains because she’d be too embarrassed to be with me when I wear it. I honored her wishes.
what? you barely make sense.
The two year old is lucky that UA didn’t have her dragged off and beaten senseless.
Right ‘cause “muh Constitootion”. Am I right Mr. civNat?
Trying to get a two-year-old to wear a mask is just STUPID.
Ask any guy if he has ever washed his cloth mask and you hear him say “Nope.”
Exactly.
A new twist I’ve also added is that I always pull of them ask to hang on one ear whenever I’m talking. I also like to tell people wearing masks that I’m hard of hearing and read lips and I can’t understand what they are saying. There is actually a lot of truth to that. I wear hearing aids in meetings.
“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.”
I agree...and I’m in lunatic California where everybody is insane.
It is ridiculous making ANYONE wear a mask, when they have no symptoms, have not been diagnosed as having a deadly, communicable disease, and when the “deadly disease” for which everyone is being forced to wear a mask, is LESS DEADLY THAN THE FLU.
The other passengers agreed with the airline. I wonder however what they were really thinking. I would not be surprised that in private they would agree with the couple but they didn’t want to risk being thrown of the plane too, Which is cowardly, I agree.
Garlic salads, person with a huge backpack, carry on plus a shoulder bag. I apoligize. My 2 cents dometimes types out as non sense
It effects regular people too, it’s difficult to hear the pronunciation of the vowels and consonants when the voice is muffled, even when a person is speaking into a microphone. Which is why many politicians and other people take the mask off to speak.
Even if you do have symptoms, it makes more sense to be at home while you can, which is odd since that was common sense for just about any respiratory disease, even the flu. I don’t feel like inhaling the germs back in, which I will with some of them. Also it just makes me tick to be able to smell paint, fecal matter, or perfume under the mask, because those particulates and aerosols are getting inside in order for me to smell them.
Prager didn't mention this, but United also banned the family from flying on the airline for life. Imagine, punishing a 2 y/o this way because she had a problem with a fricking mask. Do you think this is cool? I sure as hell don't.
And it doesn't matter in either case. You have no God-given right to patronize any business. In a free country United Airlines can ban you for life ... and for any damn reason they please.
I think this stupid mask idiocy is exactly that -- idiocy. But I carry a mask around in my car just in case I need to enter a business that requires it. Even if I know it's B.S., I am not the owner of the business establishment and have no right to tell the owner how to run the business. If there's a sign on the door that says I must wear a mask, I either wear a mask or I go somewhere else.
Agreed. I’ll bet United will offer a settlement out of court before they even get served on this
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