Posted on 03/28/2022 5:38:34 PM PDT by george76
Nine flight attendants from six states said Monday they are suing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the federal mask mandate on public transportation, arguing the COVID-19 rule obstructs their normal breathing over many hours and threatens aviation security because passengers refuse to comply.
They want a judge to vacate the rule, which was recently extended to April 18, and prevent the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services from issuing such a mandate again. The attendants filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado because one plaintiff, Victoria Vasenden of Southwest Airlines, is based at Denver International Airport.
“We are in planes and airports up to 18 hours a day with zero chance of fresh air,” Ms. Vasenden said. “That’s assault on the brain, organs, and tissues of the human body. Yet we are expected to ensure all aspects of the flight remain safe when masks clearly diminish our capacities.”
The lawsuit says being forced to police the rules among passengers in the skies is disrupting flights. They pointed to a recent letter from major airlines to the Biden administration that made a similar point. Also, a group of 10 pilots filed a similar lawsuit against the rule on March 10 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Airline workers say it doesn’t make sense to impose the rules on planes, where the air is constantly filtered, even as the CDC does not recommend universal indoor masking for much of the U.S. population under its recently revised guidance.
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It’s about time.
Good for them! Hard to believe this absurdity has lasted this long.
If your job didn’t require a mask before Jan.31, 2020, it certainly did not require one after that date — going into the 3rd year of a State of Emergency over an ever morphing cootie narrative, it makes one wonder about some folks on FR who said way back when, “what’s the big deal, it’s just a mask.”
The mask was the prelude to the Mark.
A visual compliance check to assess the populace’s “readiness” for:
1) Vaccines
2) Vaccine “passports”
3) Vaccine “passport” microchips.
4) Linkage of microchips to “social credit scores”
Got on your union about this. They’ve been pushing to keep the mandate and they’re one of the biggest reasons we still have one.
I still see stores requiring masks for their employees.
Well said - That was the Plan from the Get-go.
another thorn in the Biden admin approach to covid.
Weren’t we told, early on, that the filtration system in airplanes was so good, that the chances of catching covid via air travel was minimal? Weren’t we shown pix of UV machines disinfecting pre-flights? Isn’t that the argument used by the attendants to avoid mandates for themselves?
Given that vaccination rate in the US is around 70%, with those over 50 and the educated business and international traveler above 80%, with 217 million fully vaccinated and 90 million of those given boosters, given that acquired immunity wanes over time, given that current variants have immunity escape abilities, and given that the vulnerable can voluntarily choose to protect themselves with N95 masks when in the terminal interior and inflight, is the unvaccinated passenger even a talking point now? What’s the main game here? Avoiding lawsuits over the forced masking of toddlers? Or more union positioning?
Yeah, it’s well past time to ditch this mask nonsense.
Yeah, it’s well past time to ditch this mask nonsense.
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