CEOs of two major airlines question the need for mask mandates
They are absolutely right. Is anyone listening?
Why masks are important
Masks are an easier win. Everyone HATES wearing masks (well, almost everyone… there are people who are convinced it is protecting them).
Winning on masks shows people that the authorities got it wrong. If we show the public that the CDC is making us do things that are nonsensical, it erodes trust in the CDC. That make the next argument (that the CDC got it wrong on the vaccine) easier to win because the CDC is no longer infallible.
Top CEOs say masks are useless
From the story in Blaze News on December 16, 2021:
CEOs of two major airlines spoke out and questioned the necessity of masks on flights, CNN reported.
American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and Southwest CEO Gary Kelly both made related remarks during a Wednesday Senate hearing on the financial support the airline industry has received amid the ongoing pandemic.
Masks are required on all American airliners per order of the federal government.
Both Parker and Kelly said that they don't believe masks make much difference when it comes to tamping down the transmission of COVID-19 and that advanced air filtration systems on airliners make them one of the safest places to be with regard to coronavirus infections.
We are finally moving in the right direction! What they said was true. That’s a great start. But is anyone listening?
I just updated my “Masks don’t work” article
I’ve updated my “Masks don’t work” article to include new research our team did which independently validated the work of UC Berkeley Professor Ben Recht who showed the Bangladesh mask study, hailed by mainstream medical experts as proving once and for all that masks work, actually proved that masks do not work at all. See new bullet point #10. You will love it if you are into statistical analysis.
The author wanted to remain anonymous so he doesn’t get attacked by his peers for telling the truth. You just can’t be too careful nowadays… telling the truth can get you fired.
A year and a half ago, I proved masks don't work at all, here:
https://www.primarydoctor.org/masks-not-effect
And here:
https://pdmj.org/papers/masks_false_safety_and_real_dangers_part4/
I wasn't the first, and I wont be the last.
Mr. Kirsch : Hoping you spot this comment, which I've posted in lieu of "piling on" in your surely overburdened e-mail inbox.
Despite this being a thread about asks and airlines, and though I suspect you're not a follower of the SJFL (Social Justice Football League, formerly known as the NFL), you may want to invest a moment to review a highly visible tragedy that unfolded during last night's Thursday Night Football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
We may well have witnessed the first nationally broadcast "adverse event" during an NFL game.
Early in the game, a young receiver for the Chargers (Parham) as thrown the ball in the back of the end zone. Nothing special there. What came next was were things got a little weird.
As the ball hit him in the hands, without being "hit" by a defensive player, he went to the ground with what would normally be a touchdown. As he contacted the ground, the ball squirted away, and the announcers (Joe Buck & Troy Aikman) started into a standard diatribe -- before quickly realizing he wasn't getting up.
As they spoke, an alternate camera angle behind the end zone showed the replay. What it showed was him hitting the ground like a rag doll, with no severe impacts to the head or neck area, and seemingly not in control of his body.
What it also showed, immediately noted by this former Ski Patroller and SAR volunteer, was his eyes (unfocused, in distress) and what appeared to be tremors in his hands. The camera quickly cut away, and the broadcast cut away to a commercial break moments later.
When the broadcast returned, the announcers were clearly tiptoeing around what thousands of other watchers and attendees had surely noticed. Eventually strapped to a gurney and loaded onto a cart, they cut to a camera angle near the tunnel as he was wheeled out of the stadium.
His body was completely immobilized, with his hands left free above his torso -- and the possible tremors noted minutes earlier were unmistakable.
Shortly after, play-by-play announcer Buck offered up a comment *surely* motivated by a voice in his earpiece, in response to an apparent firestorm raging on anti-social media, that it wasn't right to speculate about what had happened under the tragic circumstances, before pointing out that it was colder than usual in L.A., which might explain the rather shocking thing everyone had observed. (unresponsive, shaking hands)
It was all I could do not to throw my glass at the screen.
Lived and worked on the coast there myself for a few years, before high-tailing it to the wife's ancestral far in now-authoritarian western Europe in the wake of 9/11. Anyone who's lived in the region knows full well that he was not shivering. For just a moment, the veil parted, and anyone with two brain cells to rub together saw the wizard sitting at Mighty Wurlitzer.
Also of note was the reaction of the Chargers players in particular, who spent the rest of the half looking very much like they were being badly beaten, when they were in fact winning. After a couple cut shots to the sidelines between plays revealing the overall mood, the producer shifted to mostly close and individual shots.
Clearly, the players on both sides were in shock. I was so frustrated at the obvious dance the broadcast team were performing around the event that I turned off the game.
The other side of this horrible coin is the unprecedented number of *vaccinated* NFL players nonetheless "testing positive" and being moved to the "COVID List" in the last week. Well over a hundred, and still rising as of last night.
While I'm certain there's immense pressure being put on the players to close ranks and keep quiet, one wonders how long it will be before one or two of the potentially more principled veterans speak out on the subject (ala Aaron Rodgers) in light of recent events.
Perhaps among your contacts there might be a backchannel (or two) that could offer any of them questioning the narrative a platform -- anonymous or otherwise -- to float their grievances...?