An easy win for Joe Biden.
For Americans who supported the airplane mask mandate struck down by a conservative federal judge on Tuesday, the Transportation Security Administration’s cumbersome security checks have made for an easy point of comparison.
After all, nobody died when Richard Reid tried to light a bomb in his shoe on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001. But 20 years later, we are all taking off our shoes at the airport. We have, as a nation, removed our shoes several billion times.As the U.S. approaches the grim milestone of a million deaths from COVID-19, however, Florida District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has quashed the Biden administration’s rules for masking on mass transportation, including airplanes.
to the judge’s decision, arguing that masks in transit are still a vital public safety measure, even as they have disappeared from every other aspect of public life. Does the administration really think masks on airplanes are what’s holding the line? The president seems reluctant to really defend the policy. The White House may be worried the ruling, from a Trump appointee, will prevent the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from establishing enforceable guidance in the future.
For many years, security at airports has worked as a one-way ratchet, in which travel only gets more difficult and humiliating. No politician has the guts to reject the idea of another turn of the screw, let alone roll things back and be held responsible for an airplane hijacking. But by pushing travelers to drive, which is much more dangerous than flying, these procedures
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