Very soon, you might be able to give the person sitting next to you on an airplane a dirty look if they do something stupid and they will actually see that you are doing it.
Americans have been wearing masks on airplanes for two years. That also means that airline passengers have been bombarded with passive-aggressive threats from airline crew for the last two years if said mask dipped a fraction of a centimeter below their nose.
It all could be ending. Soon. The Chief Health Officer for Delta Air Lines, Henry Ting, told CNBC he thinks the mask mandate will be lifted by April 18th or shortly after.
Ting is a cardiologist who became Delta’s first chief health officer last year, and according to him, there have been “few if any outbreaks of COVID that could be attributed to a flight.”
The mask mandate on public transportation was supposed to end on March 19, but Joe Biden’s administration pushed it to April 18. Now, nearly every CEO of American airline companies is stressing to Biden’s team how unnecessary the mask mandate is and actually leading to more problems than it solves.
Here’s part of a letter that ten airline CEO’s sent to the White House.
“Given that we have entered a different phase of dealing with this virus, we strongly support your view that COVID-19 need no longer control our lives.”
President Trump did not issue a government mandate for masks, but all the airlines voluntarily did it in the spring of 2020 until the Federal Government stepped in under Biden and made it a requirement.
Simply put, anyone with common sense is sick of this mandate and thinks it should have ended months ago. Delta said 71% of the almost 6,000 reports of unruly airline passengers last year were tied to,,, wait for it,,, the mask mandate.
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