Posted on 04/20/2022 5:53:19 AM PDT by Salman
Chicago travelers were left to navigate a patchwork of changing mask rules Tuesday after a federal judge voided a national mandate for planes, trains and buses and Gov. J.B. Pritzker revised Illinois requirements midday.
The day started with passengers required to wear masks on just some trains, and during only some parts of air travel. The Chicago Department of Aviation, which oversees Midway and O’Hare International airports, started the day saying it would still enforce mask rules, while major airlines had already largely dropped their requirements. Morning commuters on CTA and Metra needed to wear masks, but not riders on Amtrak or the South Shore commuter line to northern Indiana. Masks were optional in Ubers and Lyfts.
By the evening commute, the rules had changed. Hours after the aviation department, CTA and Metra cited a state executive order in keeping their mask mandates, Pritzker revised the order, lifting the mask rule for public transportation. Soon, all three agencies had also dropped their requirements.
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I am in an airport right now and nearly everybody is massless. Encouraging
Good to hear.
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I flew yesterday and 95% of the passengers didn’t wear them.
I had an aisle seat. The woman in my row by the window wore a useless, poor fitting cloth mask and was eating a sliced apple snack she had brought with her. She would get a piece of apple ready with her right hand, drop the mask with her left hand for the briefest of moments, take a dainty bite of apple, and immediately put the mask back up over her mouth and nose.
This little dance of hers went on for 45 minutes. I stared at her for a few minutes watching this bizarre spectacle but she wouldn’t so much as glance at me. This has to be the most weird thing I’ve seen in the past two years and it happened on the first day of freedom.
Absolute morons.
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