The Friendly Skies are Long Gone

Through December 21, 2021, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported a complete of 5,779 unruly passenger incidents this yr. Of these incidents, the FAA has launched 1,054 investigations, which is roughly a 600% enhance from the annual common of the earlier twenty-five years.

Historically, elements reminiscent of overcrowding, cancellations, and slim seats trigger in-flight incidents. However, this yr, the masks mandate, which the FAA instituted on February 1, has been the key issue inflicting the large enhance in incidents.

Despite a mess of research exhibiting the ineffectiveness of masks and the potential unfavorable well being results, some airways are now rising their restrictions and forcing passengers to put on masks whereas consuming and consuming. This is sort of equivalent to the necessities positioned on restaurant patrons in California.

It is especially worrisome that the airline trade is following the lead of probably the most left-wing governor within the nation. It doesn’t make sense to Gary Kelly, the CEO of Southwest Airlines. He just lately testified at a Senate listening to that the air inside a airplane is secure. He stated, “I think the case is very strong that masks don’t add much, if anything, in the air cabin environment. It’s very safe, very high quality compared to any other indoor setting.”

Despite Kelly’s phrases of knowledge, Delta Air Lines issued laws demanding masks be repeatedly worn “except while eating, drinking, or taking oral medications for brief periods. Prolonged periods of mask removal are not permitted for eating or drinking – masks must be worn between bites and sips.” American Airlines issued the same masking requirement for passengers.

These calls for are turning some unhinged passengers into the masks police. On a current Delta flight from Tampa to Atlanta, Patricia Cornwall attacked an aged man for taking off his masks to eat a meal. Initially Cornwall screamed on the man, however when he didn’t comply, she hit him and ultimately spit in his face. Ironically, Cornwall was not sporting her masks whereas yelling on the man to cowl his face. When the airplane landed in Atlanta, FBI brokers arrested Cornwall and took her into custody.

This madness should finish because the as soon as pleasant skies are turning into a complete nightmare. In the great previous days, passengers would put on their “Sunday best” to board an plane. Previously, flying was a pleasurable expertise with in-flight meals and scrumptious snacks. Passengers had been handled nicely and anticipated to behave with a minimum of some dignity and sophistication.

As the submit 9/11 safety restrictions elevated and the airline trade lowered the in-flight facilities, the entire expertise modified. Airlines started to economize by limiting flights with empty seats and packed passengers into full planes. It grew to become mass transportation, and the particular feeling was lengthy gone.

Today, the flying expertise has turn out to be even worse because of the unending COVID-19 hysteria. With extreme masking necessities, even whereas consuming and consuming, the as soon as pleasurable expertise has turn out to be dreadful.

It actually doesn’t should proceed. Airlines simply must “follow the science.” A 2020 Defense Department sponsored Harvard University research decided that “flying may be safer than eating in a restaurant during the pandemic.” The superior security setting on an airplane is as a result of “on-board systems that constantly circulate and freshen the air.” The researchers famous that “even when the plane is full, on average only 0.003% of infected air particles could enter the breathing zone of seated and masked passengers.”

With such unmistakable proof, it’s infuriating that airways are not stress-free their necessities and giving aggravated passengers a break. Instead, airline passengers can anticipate this horrific scenario to turn out to be even worse.

In a current interview with ABC News, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor, claimed that air vacationers ought to perpetually be required to put on masks. According to Fauci, “I think the idea of taking masks off, in my mind, is really not something we should even be considering.”

Of course, that is anticipated from Dr. Fauci, although he initially discounted the effectiveness of masks. For the final eighteen months, he has always promoted his two favourite causes: masks, and vaccines.

In reality, he is able to require air vacationers to get a COVID-19 vaccine earlier than being allowed to board a airplane. In the ABC interview, Fauci warned, “A vaccine requirement for a person getting on the plane is just another level of getting people to have a mechanism that would spur them to get vaccinated. Namely, you can’t get on a plane unless you’re vaccinated, which is just another one of the ways of getting requirements, whatever that might be.”

Fauci commonly dismisses the idea of non-public freedom and prefers to problem edicts and mandates within the identify of public “safety.” To Fauci and the opposite “doom and gloom” pandemic “experts,” it doesn’t matter that the brand new “Omicron” variant has not led to a rise in hospitalizations and deaths, it’s a helpful technique to terrify the general public into submitting to the ever-increasing mandates.

If Americans don’t adjust to the mandates, there might be fewer and fewer choices. For these uncooperative Americans, the alternatives for journey, employment, and leisure are lowering each day.

Some of the pandemic maniacs desire a return to the times of the Japanese internment camps for the unvaccinated. They wish to quarantine and segregate from the remainder of the nation those that refuse to conform.

America was based on the idea of freedom, however that’s international to the purveyors of virus panic who masquerade as authorities well being officers and so-called “experts.”

In our nation, hellish circumstances are not simply reserved for air vacationers. It exists, particularly in states led by Democratic Governors. This nightmare will proceed if American proceed to obey these illegal encroachments on their freedom.

At some level, if sufficient Americans resist, sanity will prevail in our nation as soon as once more. Let us pray that occurs quickly, for the street our nation is touring down is scary and paying homage to some very darkish durations in human historical past.

Jeff Crouere is a local New Orleanian and his award profitable program, “Ringside Politics,” airs nationally on Real America’s Voice Network,AmericasVoice.News weekdays at 7 a.m. CT and from 7-11 a.m. weekdays on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the writer of America’s Last Chanceand supplies common commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.web. For extra info, electronic mail him at [email protected]