Previously a federal judge overturned the federal mask mandate for transportation, thereby allowing travelers to make their own choices. The DOJ has appealed that decision after the CDC said it wanted the mask mandate to remain in place. The status of that litigation is unknown.
Today, the CDC has announced a semi-permanent extension of the federal transportation mask mandate with no expiration date noted. [Announcement Here] That means all travelers on airplanes, trains, busses and ridesharing will be required to wear facemasks again, including inside the terminals and operational hubs of those transportation nodes, pending the outcome of the DOJ appeal to the federal court.
CDC Announcement – “At this time, CDC recommends that everyone aged 2 and older – including passengers and workers – properly wear a well-fitting mask or respirator over the nose and mouth in indoor areas of public transportation (such as airplanes, trains, etc.) and transportation hubs (such as airports, stations, etc.).
[…] This public health recommendation is based on the currently available data, including an understanding of domestic and global epidemiology, circulating variants and their impact on disease severity and vaccine effectiveness, current trends in COVID-19 Community Levels within the United States, and projections of COVID-19 trends in the coming months.
[…] “CDC continues to recommend that all people—passengers and workers, alike—properly wear a well-fitting mask or respirator in indoor public transportation conveyances and transportation hubs to provide protection for themselves and other travelers in these high volume, mixed population settings. […] Additionally, it is important for all of us to protect not only ourselves, but also to be considerate of others at increased risk for severe COVID-19 and those who are not yet able to be vaccinated. Wearing a mask in indoor public transportation settings will provide protection for the individual and the community.” ~ Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director
If the Biden administration lose the court appeal to reinstitute the mask mandate, this announcement by the CDC would appear to be moot, they couldn’t enforce it. However, if the Biden administration is successful in their appeal, the mandatory mask wearing returns.
Put another way….. If the Biden administration lose the appeal, the people wearing masks will be the COVID worshippers. If the Biden administration win their appeal we all have to wear them.
The mandate created by Joe Biden did not have legal structure. It was a dictatorial fiat that exceeded the capacity of the executive branch to create. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle found the CDC exceeded its statutory authority with the mask mandate and violated the rules that guide CDC regulations. {LINK} After Joe Biden arbitrarily announced the federal transportation mandate, the CDC triggered enforcement of the mask mandate without any required time for public feedback on a new regulation.
Congress could easily write a law authorizing mechanisms for the CDC and TSA to use in enforcement of a federal Transportation mask mandate; but they won’t – because the public doesn’t support it. However, the Biden administration doesn’t care about majority public opinion, they are fine-tuned to push virtue signaling as a political strategy.
The White House is very committed to all their mandates around COVID-19, the mask mandate is no different. From the perspective of the professional political left, the theater of forced mask wearing represents the visible power and authority of government to rule the lives of the irrelevant proles.
Any pesky legal rulings, that seek to reduce or remove the power of government, are viewed by the left as arbitrary and insignificant efforts to block their almighty power of government. They can choose to wear a mask if they want, but that’s not really the issue behind the mask mandate. The true power of the left is in the ability to force everyone to comply to their whims regardless of individual freedom.
The Covidians who define themselves by their adherence to the dictates of the U.S. government, will be happy with this position from the CDC today. They worship at the altar of COVID science and use masks as an expression of their sanctimonious feeling of superiority. However, in an election year where the overwhelming majority of the American people have had enough of this political science, this CDC position may fuel an even more angry response.
Masks are not laws and Suggestions are not Mandates I agree on the Mask Theatre but please do not use the word Mandate in the same sentence as Masks . Walensky can pound sand as can the Center for Disinformation and Corruption. AKA as tHe CDC or more true to point the Vaccine Cartel. Anyone who still listens to the CDC needs help as they are suffering in all probability from a serious case of Mass Delusional Psychosis. It is this simple Do Not Comply Do Not Comply
This is another test to see how many sheep will be herded to the slaughter. Think this is a coincidence that today as another Pfizer Data dump? Think Again Cris’s Chaos and Confusion that the Communist Way!
Everything the left does is a coordinated attack on We The People
The Ernst of the world is starting to relinquish ( for now their COVID Control) but not the Biden Obama Cartel.
“Microplastics found deep in lungs of Humans” [Last 2 years]
The facemasks are made of or are required to have a layer of polypropylene.
The faceshields are made of PET.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Plastics have been around for 50, 60 years? And since 2 years we find them in lungs. What a coincidence.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/06/microplastics-found-deep-in-lungs-of-living-people-for-first-time
Now the government wants you to don your mask and breathe deeply, for science.
Stop listening to IDIOTS! they just want to see who their sheeple are!
We will get just as much tyranny as we will allow………………..
seems we will allow a bunch…………….they must keep control………………at all cost……..
Masks are interesting when they were required for live poker. Covers a lot of tells!
Fortunately, my local poker club drop this as soon as Texas dropped any requirement. You still see some folks wearing the mask… and I’m fine with that. But I haven’t for the last 15 months or so!
And talk about being I. Close proximity with people and passing there same cards around for hours at a time… lol
NO.
Boy, that 2 weeks to flatten the curve is taking quiet awhile to resolve itself, no?
It’s how it all started.
Family members are going to Greece in a few weeks. It was concerning because they’re all unvaxxed but already have had the wuflu. Yesterday the Greek government removed all requirements to entry — no vax papers, no certificates of recovery, no masks. I guess they miss the $$$. Yet the US regime is still playing.
They will all need to be tested the day before they fly home, even if they are vaccinated US citizens, and if they don’t have negative test reports, the airline will not let them board. This mandate has not been challenged, presumably because the CDC does have authority to keep out persons who might bring in disease.
Of course this does not apply to legal or illegal entry by ground transport or boat. If someone flew in from Canada, they would need the negative test, but if they came across the border by bus or car, they wouldn’t. Entirely logical, right?
Ultra communist, mask wearing, 90% jabbed, Santa Cruz County has over 200 covid cases per 100,000 population while the conservative Mecca of Redding, State of Jefferson is fairing much better.
It’s non-masked, 50% jabbed and has less than 10 percent the cases of SC-home of the Whole Foods mask compliance Nazi’s.
Just another snippet of data supporting the no vax, no jab, no trust the political scientists (Fauci) and the unscientific mandates.
I was educated in properly issuing respiratory protection to employees and I never gave anyone a N95 or lesser protective device for wood dust, and certainly not for someone working with biohazards, like hantavirus or say…covid.
It’s all about mind control and nothing to do with preventing spread of an aerosolized pathogen that freely passes through a mask.
Lastly, it’s a recommendation from a federal agency. State and local governments can say, to the CDC, “Let’s go Brandon!”
Choose your locality appropriately!
They want you controlled and sick.
“A new peer-reviewed study entitled: “Correlation Between Mask Compliance and COVID-19 Outcomes in Europe” has demonstrated that use of face masks, even widespread, did not correlate with better outcomes during the COVID epidemic, based on data from 35 European countries with populations of over one million people each, encompassing a total of 602 million people.”
“Moreover,” the study concludes, “the moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe also suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences.”
Link: New study: Face mask usage correlates with higher death rates | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva
Haven’t worn a face diaper except for doing body work on my street rod for well over a year. Have had the same rag mask hanging in my truck for longer than that. Won’t wear one now either
The Founders of this nation eventually non-complied their way to victory over their “rule by fiat” dictatorial oppressor. Of course they had to kill over 25,000 armed men to accomplish that.
They say recommend not must…
Has NOTHING to do with the Chinese virus…we all know this.
Maybe everyone shoukd just stop traveling, if possible, and gather in large venues to protest our hatred of our government.
Wish folks would stop traveling, but they won’t.
Wish folks would stop paying “taxes” that support these nasty thieves and stop feeding this monster, but they won’t.
Too scared of the IRS and too scared of a non-existent “virus” with a 99.97% survival rate even among seniors.
We’re in a lot of trouble.
Agree 100%
Going to be hard to put the cat back in the bag. Flew home from vacation after the court ruling, probably 90% were without masks in the airport and on the planes. Most of the crew were maskless also.
I’m hopeful of that also.
biden, walensky, fauci, three pathetic imbeciles, unqualified to do their jobs, in this illegitimate administration.
Yet there they are, and here be we.
No, we don’t all have to wear them. I have never worn a mask and don’t intend to start now.
Took a city bus downtown to the museum where I volunteer. No mask on driver (although the plexiglas screen is still up), or on passengers , including me. There was a box of masks on the dashboard, for the nervous, I assume.
The CDC is NOT a government agency and therefore should have no power. Just like the rent moratorium they were able to enforce until the courts rightfully struck it down.
If they are going to try and enforce masks on transportation, then I expect Congress, Senate and the Executive Branch and all government offices to wear a mask while they are working.
Force this on them. I think maybe 15% of the population cares about masks anymore. There is NOT one scientific study that shows masks work.
My answer to Biden…F off.
Yeah, we all say and think that.
Yet there he is and here we are.
And yet I still refuse to comply.
You don’t comply with what, exactly?
Wouldn’t it be nice if everybody — at least, the majority of sane, decent, government-hating rational freedom-loving people! — ALL would, ALL the time, NEVER comply with ANYONE trying to control and rob them?
Wouldn’t it be nice if at least those actually realized they are being lied to ALL THE TIME, and ROBBED by doing their “patriotic duty” by paying the “taxes” that actually support and enable and enforce all the things we should NEVER comply with?
Yeah.
3 years and they are still pulling emergency BS. It is a load of crap, it is solely wanting CCP government powers.
No.
Separate Fla. Judge Backs CDC Mask And Testing Mandates
By Linda Chiem (May 2, 2022, 6:52 PM EDT) — Less than two weeks after a Florida federal judge struck down the federal transportation mask mandate, a separate Florida judge in the same district has ruled that the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention was well within its authority to issue the mandate in the interest of public health.
U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron on Friday ruled in favor of the CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a suit brought by Lucas Wall, a Florida resident and anti-masking proponent behind the group Americans Against Mask Mandates, challenging both the federal transportation mask mandate and the…
https://www.law360.com/articles/1489230/separate-fla-judge-backs-cdc-mask-and-testing-mandates
Appeal of the April case will be in the 11th Circuit. The DOJ has not asked the appellate court to stay the lower court ruling. https://genericblognews.blogspot.com/2022/04/more-on-transportation-mask-mandate.html
U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron is an obama appointed Federal Judge ruling for the deep state! What they are there for! Amazing how they get theses cases!/s
It’s only a “recommendation.”
Of course they want to force filthy cloth to cover your nose and mouth:
More Harm Than Good: A New Study Shows That Masks Not Only Didn’t Work But That They Correlated With More COVID-19 Deaths ~
https://rumble.com/v13607x-more-harm-than-good-a-new-study-shows-that-masks-not-only-didnt-work-but-th.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&ep=2
One of my girl besties is a semi-prog since being in AA for 20 years. She got the three shots, started having fainting spells and Bell’s palsy and ended up in the ER from “drug interaction complications.” After 4 days she came home, and a week later got ANOTHER shot/booster. It gave her a fever, body aches and re-ignited her heart rate which took weeks previously to bring down. Yet she waves the pride flag of vaccination. I can’t figure her out.
This sounds like someone I wouldn’t want to associate with.
Wow. what a TROOPER.
Addictions are to many different things. Not just substances. She’s addicted to approval.
Large events (Press Corps dinner, Hollywood) are exempt is exempt except black food servants and dress handlers.
Flexing their muscles and control.
F’ers…
This week I heard fr/ 2 vaxxed friends who tested + for Covid. Last month heard from 1, also vaxxed.
This is the FIRST time I have heard fr/ any old friends that they had Covid in the past 2 years.
ALL said it was a Bad. Cold. Period.
Sounded like the colds I’d sometimes get in H.S. and College – and have never had since.
Tt someone yesterday, vaccine status unknown, who got tested and was positive but was tired. Said he had no symptoms so no idea why he was tested
My wife & I came back from Southern Europe after visiting multiple Christmas markets in Dec.2019. She brought an unusual cold, nothing serious but gave it to me which, required a visit to the urgent care clinic. Neither of us felt too bad and everything passed on about 2 weeks. Fast forward 2 years later we both have been around tens of thousands of people and for me perhaps over a hundred thousand people and absolutely no trace of covid. I was even tested for covid 5 times last year with all negative results. The common demoninator with us ?? No Vax and, as a matter of fact everyone we know that has had covid has been vaccinated.
November election just 6 months away – they have to prep us for more ballot muling.
Long term, with no end date, mark of the beast.
NEVER!
No authority !!! Reject it
Throw it back in their face
Their is no requirement to wear a mask.
The CDC is issuing a “recommendation” which has no legal force behind it.
“U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the federal mask mandate for airplanes and other modes of public transportation Monday, writing in a 59-page ruling that the CDC had exceeded its authority and failed to follow proper rule making procedures.Apr 18, 2022″
The CDC is never going sit down and shut up regardless of what the courts say. Fauci, the same way. These people regard themselves above the law.
This is why they leaked Roe and CDC trying to distract. This info. is very bad.
Stephen Harris
@joehonda7
Pfizer data released today. 80,000 pages. Pfizer knew vaccine harmed the fetus in pregnant women, and that the vaccine was not 95% effective, Pfizer data shows it having a 12% efficacy rate.
*Those who are more equal will be exempt.
Soccer moms: “Abortion….mask my child. Abortion….mask my child.” (Abortion wins.)🤷♀️
Soccer moms: “Abortion….boys in girl’s sports. Abortion….boys in girl’s sports.” (Abortion wins).🤷♀️
Recommends is not requirement.
A decree is why it was overturned in the first place. This will also be overturned.
look who isn`t wearing mask and who is
That is obviously one of her SS people? I wonder how he likes being her butt boy. Someone elsewhere described her purse as urine yellow. hehe You KNOW she is feeling like royalty.
Too bad the red on that dress is from dye….not die.
The dead stink my friend!
Hahaha is that Louis Ferikan Nation of Islam leader acting as Cinderella’s slave? At what point do you say no I ain’t doing that, I ain’t picking up her dress and being her man servant.
well on the bright side black people at least her purse is filled with hot sauce.
Confused here…planning on flying overseas next week.
Does the CDC “request/mandate”per the Occupant admin Supe cede a judges rule(Fla) as to the use of masks? Where does it state their power as a government agency?
So do we need to wear one or not?
No it does not. Do not wear a mask.
You never had to wear one, you cowardly, compliant little worm.
FJB and the CDC too!
I mean, unless the ruling that struck down the mask mandate was stayed, isn’t that basically saying that these new rules are just “recommendations”? Even the airline industry has lost the appetite to enforce these mask mandates. These idiots need to throw in the towel already. It’s over. If you wanna tape the mask to your face until the end of time, then be my guest.
People need to stand up for their individual rights and refuse to comply.
“… and those who are not yet able to be vaccinated.” And those who DO NOT NEED TO BE jabbed and WILL NOT BE jabbed.
This CDC announcement is not new they already had been recommending masks. This reissued recommendation is to stir up divisions over the masks eg; people who don’t wear one endanger others. They released the SC Roe opinion for the same reason, they are trying to fire up their base, and distract from the dumpster fire they started.
As a Veteran that gets care at a VA….I have to wear one to see a doctor…..no mask no see…
it is the only time i ever put one on…..
medical tyranny is real to me and many others….
So much for your fighting for freedom.
There is a much bigger reason to appeal the mask mandate decision on behalf of the CDC.
The UN is in the process of attempting to give the WHO the ability to mandate health related actions as a means of rapid response to Global Crises DIRECTLY TO NATIONS by-passing their elected Governments. Part of that mandate is also the ability to DIRECT GOVERNMENTS to PAY MONEY and EFFORT to Specified Drug Companies to develop and manufacture “vaccines” in response to Global Crises as well as compensation to non-selected drug makers. This is the BILL GATES inspired GERM Treaty effort.
In the US, the CDC and NIH would be the conduits for the WHO to execute these mandates.
If the US Courts strike down the ability for the Executive Branch, including the CDC, to execute these types of mandates there would be a major problem. At a minimum this would force Congress to legislate the appropriate legal authority and for that legislation to survive court challenges.
The WHO doesn’t have the right to mandate and if the government tries to allow it, well, spark/fire
They have bigger plans in mind in 2 weeks and no one is talking about it
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/pandemic-treaty?
s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
First the leaked SC ruling now this, their private polling about the enthusiasm of their core must be truly dire. Somebody also should remind them they don’t have the Twitter ban support anymore, so people will see how unscientific and unpopular this move really is.
We must protect ourselves from the midterm variant.
Everyone forgets this is all about keeping mail in ballots for Nov 2022.
totally. wonder what position a president desantis would take? maybe after a little turnover at cdc and possibly a fauci indictment?
I’d prefer Trump 2024 and then DeSantis afterwards.
Actually, I’d prefer the 2020 election was acknowledged as fraud and corrected now.
I’m not 100% certain of the details, as I’ve only seen the information in passing – but we have something from the Australian Electoral Commission saying people with covid are to stay away from the voting places. I’m not sure what the plan is exactly, but I guess these people will have an alternative way to vote ??
Our federal election is May 21
Meanwhile, we know for a fact that the data shows the flu is worse than the current variants. Yet no flu rules ever before or even now. It is all so super dodgy!!
May the people of Australia be able to get rid of some of their freaky gov’t officials. Power to the People.
Thank you! That is what I hope happens, too. The plan is to try to vote in some freedom loving minor parties, who will hopefully get a few seats and hold the major parties to account.
The current prediction, however, is the worst case scenario, where the left (Labor) will get a minority government and require support and deals from the far left (Greens). But then I saw a left ex politician say that he has seen the methods of the prediction and he thinks it’s wrong and everything is still on the table. We will see.