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Mandatory masks for air travelers in the U.S. seem to be one of the last vestiges of the COVID War that was launched about two years ago… a war that has 10’s of millions of more lives, livelihoods and untold psychological devastation than the virus.
The Transportation Security Administration announced through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that it will extend the requirement for planes, inside airports, and other forms of transportation until at least 18 April.
Under the TSA’s mandate, everyone 2 years old and older must wear face coverings in airports, planes, trains and other forms of public transport.
TRENDPOST: Why not April 17th or April 19th?
Why not everyone 3 years old, or 5 years old and older much wear a face covering?
Why? Because these bureaucrats—people that can’t get jobs in the real world but suck up to the political system and get paid by We the People so they can tell us what to do—are making these dates up based on not a scintilla of scientific data.
The mandate extension comes after the CDC announced that it no longer recommends face coverings in public indoor settings. About 90 percent of the American population lives in areas that are considered to be a low or medium risk for infection.
Mask Refusal
Since the mask implementation rule on airplanes in 2021, there have been more than 6,000 incidents involving unruly passengers, ABC 7 NY reported.
The rule was supposed to expire on 18 March. There is still some concern about the virus and individuals with underlying conditions who are more likely to experience worse symptoms from the virus.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that as of 7 March there were 814 unruly passengers in 2022 alone. Of those, 535 cases involved face coverings. Bloomberg reported that the federal government is eyeing a no-fly list for those who refuse to comply with the requirement.
Henry Harteveldt, a travel-industry analyst with Atmosphere Research Group, told the station that he took about four recent flights and noticed that a lot of these airlines seem to have little interest in enforcing these requirements.
“I noticed there were passengers who did not wear their masks even when they were not eating or drinking, and the flight attendants did not ask them to put them on,” he said.
Mask Stupidity
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the decision by the federal government to impose the mask mandate on planes. It became a running joke since individuals are allowed to take their masks off while eating or drinking during a flight.
So, based on the rule, a passenger who is a slow eater could spend the duration of a flight nibbling on his Terra chips. (See “MASKS ON PLANE= MASS STUPIDITY,” “ELITES ARE THE PROBLEM THAT MUST BE FACED” and “CAPITOL HILL DROPS MASK MANDATE.”)
TRENDPOST: As we have forecast over two months ago, the COVID War would end by late March, mid-April. And as illustrated in our February 2022 Trends Journal, the COVID War would bleed into the Ukraine War, and absent a universal peace movement, the Ukraine War will escalate into World War III.
The Trends Journal last year mocked the government’s plane mandate as sheer lunacy because these masks can be removed for eating, drinking and taking medication. Why? Obviously, in the New Abnormal world of lost freedom and intelligence… the virus will not enter one’s mouth between sips and bites!
However, now that China—where the COVID War was first launched in 2020 in celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year, The Year of the Rat—is reigniting the COVID War to fight rising COVID cases, other nations may again obey the Chinese way and impose more lockdown mandates.