Posted on 04/13/2022 11:22:02 AM PDT by lightman
The Biden administration is set to announce that the CDC's federal mandate for mass transit, plane, and train travel will be extended an additional 15 days after being set to expire on April 18th following a previous extension by the Biden administration.
As The AP reported:
The Biden administration will extend for two weeks the nationwide mask requirement for public transit as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was set to extend the order, which was to expire on April 18, by two weeks to monitor for any observable increase in severe virus outcomes as cases rise in parts of the country. The move was being made out of abundance of caution, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to preview the CDC’s action. The requirement will now extend through May 3, 2022.
So for just two weeks more (sound familiar?), Americans traveling by train, subway, airplane, etc. will be required to mask up despite the fact that arenas remain been packed with maskless fans for concerts, sporting events, and more. You don't need to wear a mask, according to the CDC, while sitting in a crowded restaurant with one dingy ceiling fan creaking in slow circles, but you do need to keep wearing a mask on a passenger aircraft in which air is constantly flowing and highly filtered.
As Townhall reported in late March, the CEOs of America's major airlines sent a letter to Biden demanding the federal mask mandate for travel be updated to be in line with other countries and known science. "Lifting the mask mandate in airports and onboard aircraft can be done safely as England has done," explained the CEOs letter to Biden:
It makes no sense that people are still required to wear masks on airplanes, yet are allowed to congregate in crowded restaurants, schools and at sporting events without masks, despite none of these venues having the protective air filtration system that aircraft do.
Clearly, President Biden didn't care for what the industry leaders had to say.
As some Republicans including Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas pointed out, the Biden administration's decision to extend COVID restrictions for Americans is more than a little ironic given the White House intends to drop Title 42 — a COVID restriction on illegal immigrants — in May.
The decision comes even after the CDC guidance was updated to allow Americans in nearly every corner of the country to shed their masks when indoors. Despite the relaxed restrictions from the CDC as the Biden administration scrambles to but COVID behind them ahead of the midterms, many liberal leaders continue to mandate masks for young children and toddlers who are ineligible for vaccines. Some Democrats, like those running Philadelphia, have reinstated indoor mask mandates for all despite having extremely low numbers of severe disease or death.
how about a Trial THIS week
of what the CDC knew
and when they knew it?
No air is circulated more than in a plane. Masks should be optional.......always...
retards all...
B as in B.
S as in S.
Have they proven that being on airplanes HAS CAUSED more cases.
Meanwhile, nosocomial spread of the coof in hospitals by vaxxed superspreader employees troubles Deep State not at all...
And those people are all masked, aren’t they...
Masks couldn’t stop pollen.
Cloth mask are essentially useless... They told us that from March of 2020 until June of 2020... What happened in June of 2020 to make mask useful?
They realized that staying locked down forever wasn’t an option. They had no vaccines and they needed something to reassure those who were infected with ‘fear and loathing’, that it was safe to come out of their caves... So mask suddenly became useful.
To this day they are still appeasing and reassuring that minority of the population who remain in the ‘fear and loathing’ Covidien cults. If the government came out and admitted that the entire pandemic was essentially fake news, and the biggest hoax in history these Covidien’s would obviously have no choice but to revolt and cause havoc.
All mask mandates (except for the usual health care and transportation sectors) were dropped in June of last year in Pennsylvania.
Visited a supermarket in a red county earlier today and probably 1/3 of the customers were still wearing their Biden binkies.
Mostly women and minorities.
This is TEN MONTHS after the mandates were lifted!
Extend the mandate that was in place when uptick occurred? Genius.
I still see masked morons driving alone in their cars....
Can’t we reach a compromise and simply make full body condoms mandatory for all fat purple haired demonrat wamyn?
The endless moving of the goal posts is the new normal for the democrat party.
That would be nice.
The Social Security Office has mask requirements. Such a joke. While I was sitting at the desk one of the toads got up, put his face diaper under his nose and started shooting the bull with one of the secretaries in the back.
Meanwhile the 300 lb security officer informed me that my Leatherman tool needed to go immediately back in my vehicle and that I was lucky I didn’t make it inside the building because, “(making the tsk-tsk noise) , that would be 5 years in federal prison and $10,000 fine.”
He found out I had it because I showed it to him when he asked if I had “anything that could be considered a weapon.” I said, “well I have this ...”
I felt so much safer without the assault multi-tool on my person, knowing that he would protect us all if any assailant were to attack his position. what a joke... just like the TSA....FBI....ATF.... all the government muscle to keep us sheep in line.
As long as you had a pen, a heavy ring, and a belt you were still very weaponized.
“what a joke... just like the TSA....FBI....ATF.... all the government muscle to keep us sheep in line.”
Don’t think you’ll find much “muscle” in the halls of any fat, bloated federal bureaucracy. They keep the soda pop and potato chip economic sectors in rising profit.
“ when he asked if I had “anything that could be considered a weapon.””
What an idiot and a stupid question. ANYTHING *could* be considered a weapon. I’d show him a pen if I got asked that.
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