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Delta Air Lines passengers and employers no longer need to wear face coverings.
Shortly after a federal judge declared the CDC’s masking mandate “unlawful,” Delta issued the following statement:
Following the ruling of a U.S. district court judge on Monday, April 18, the Biden Administration announced that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will no longer enforce the federal mandate requiring masks in all U.S. airports and onboard aircraft. Effective immediately, masks are optional for all airport employees, crew members and customers inside U.S. airports and onboard aircraft.
Delta employees and customers may continue wearing masks if they so choose. Wearing a well-fitting mask protects the wearer, even if others around them are not wearing masks.
Given the unexpected nature of this announcement, please be aware that customers, airline employees and federal agency employees – such as TSA – may be receiving this information at different times. You may experience inconsistent enforcement during the next 24 hours as this news is more broadly communicated – remember to show understanding and patience with others who may not be aware enforcement is no longer required. Communications to customers and in-airport signage and announcements will be updated to share that masking is now optional – this may take a short period of time.
Local mask mandates in other countries may still be in effect. Additional updates will be provided as new information becomes available.
We are relieved to see the U.S. mask mandate lift to facilitate global travel as COVID-19 has transitioned to an ordinary seasonal virus. Thank you for your support in complying with the federal mask mandate and keeping each other, and our customers, safe during the pandemic.
We’ll See How Long This Lasts?
Lawyers and other smart people in the group: it seems the CDC overstepped a wee bit. So, can President Joe Biden issue some executive order mandating masks in airports, on planes, trains, and automobiles?
Mask Up or Not — and Mind Your Own Business
I know this is a major blow to people who really want others to wear masks. But this court ruling doesn’t mean people can’t wear masks.
So, if you want to wear a mask, you do you. Mask away, my friend.
If you don’t want to wear a mask, great. To quote the Growing Pains theme song, “Show me that smile again!” But don’t belittle those who do wish to make up. They’re not hurting you.
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YES! God bless that Judge.
Yeah finally freedom to choose to wear the MASK!!I think most people are so
Used to masks they will continue to do so !
You could be right, but at least it will be by choice (or maybe not depending on their frame of mind)
That’s fine. They can.
I will continue to wear the mask. It’s easy and doesn’t bother me one bit…and it just might save me from illness. Do I know that for a fact? Nope…but I know it certainly can’t hurt!
That being said…if you don’t want to wear it…you shouldn’t. That’s you at your own peril…have at it.
But, keep in mind…endemic does not mean end-of-pandemic. It really means, it’s here and never going away.
But…be cool…enjoy that we’re traveling…and Let it Be!
Each to their own, I agree with you.
Yeah, honestly, during high-volume travel times (winter holidays, etc.), I might wear a mask because I’m at expert at contracting colds or other stuff. I’d prefer to 1) not get anything or 2) spread something to others.
But I’m at the tail-end of, like, a 10-day cold. I wonder if my immune system is sub-par because of all the mask wearing. (Bourbon enjoying may have something to do with it, too, who knows.)
Ill answer that question for you. Unless you are wearing an N95 mask with head straps that is properly fitted, then your mask is absolutely useless in protecting you from covid and other respiratory viruses. It’s simple science that was proven way before Covid-19.
Lesser mask filtering is just that…. LESS. An N95 is not perfect either it’s a point on a continuum. If the straps on my N95 break, am I going to just do without? No if someone has a surgical mask or other I will switch to that. Anything at all, is better than nothing at all.
This is as unexpected as the Berlin Wall coming down, even though, just with that event, with hindsight it was so obviously going to happen.
My only concern is that it took a court case to do this. It should never have been a Federal requirement, but when it was, it went on too long. This Administration lost an opportunity to show leadership by being forced to give in. I’m even more stunned that they gave in so easily. I can’t see them backtracking now, with all the airlines in favor of ending the mandate and dropping enforcement. Time to move on, COVID-19 is now endemic not pandemic.
Hallelujah!
Now they need to drop the testing requirement for AT LEAST US citizens return to the USA. Getting trapped on foreign soil just doesn’t work for me. As far as masks go. If you want to wear one, wear it! To each their own… heck, if the person next to me is coughing, sneezing and sputtering during a flight… I’ll don a mask pronto. I don’t want to catch their funk…. whatever it is. Wearing a mask doesn’t bother me. I wear a mask most of my day at work. But, I’d rather not HAVE to wear one while traveling.
Agreed, regarding the testing requirement.
Why do progressives think any idea they come up with has to be imposed by political coercion? You know the answer. Because they believe in their superior moral virtue, and they like to order other people around.
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I hate to differ with the apparent majority here, BUT, it isn’t just about protecting yourself!
Legal and business considerations aside, masks prevent transmission both ways: If an infected person is masked, they will emit less virus for others to breath than if they were unmasked. Similarly, an uninfected person is less likely to be infected by any virus particles circulating around shared air than someone who’s not. All of that is proven, and all masks have been shown to prevent transmission both ways. (True: some masks are much better than others…) So, it stands to reason that anyone who has a genuine concern for themselves AND the well being of others would deduce that it’s best to wear a mask anytime they are in an enclosed space and stationary around the same people for any length of time.
It doesn’t stand to reason at all. For thousands of years people with concern for themselves and others have lived without masks and society has thrived, just as it will continue to do without masks now. You seem to be suggesting masks should be permanent everywhere in enclosed spaces and that is not how G-d designed man to live. You also don’t take into account the possible and unknown dangerous side effects of such precautions.
Side effects? Like those rare occasions wearing a seat belt or helmet leads to a detrimental result? Though they save countless thousands of lives?
Guessing you’re not in the medical field when you imply an “unknown” result may come from wearing masks for long periods. Actual long periods, measured in years, decades,
By that reasoning I assume you will be wearing a mask ANYTIME you are in the vicinity of others … enclosed space or not. In bed with your wife … mask up! Playing monopoly with your kids … mask up.
Kids walk out of your house … mask up!
Enjoy your life!