Pushback: Pilots sue CDC over Biden mask requirement on planes
How the CDC determines its mask policies
Don’t comply: Ten pilots from three different American airlines — American, Southwest, and JetBlue — have now sued the CDC over the Biden administrations mask mandate requiring everyone to wear masks on airplanes.
A group of commercial airline pilots filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an attempt to lift the federal transportation mask mandate.
In court paperwork, the 10 commercial airline pilots – who work for American JetBlue and Southwest – argued that the CDC issued an order “Requirement for Persons to Wear Masks While on Conveyances & at Transportation Hubs” on Feb. 1, 2020 “without providing public notice or soliciting comment.”
The pilots are asking the court to “vacate worldwide the FTMM (federal transportation mask mandate)” calling the move an “illegal and unconstitutional exercise of executive authority.”
Biden’s edict was first imposed on February 1, 2021, shortly after he took power. It has been extended several times since, the most recent extension keeping it in force through April 18, 2022. At no time, however, has any data been put forth by the CDC demonstrating that the required masks accomplish anything, while we already have decades of data showing that the masks are useless against viruses like the Wuhan flu.
This new lawsuit is the eighteenth filed against the mandate, though it is the first filed by those who work on the planes.
The pilots claim above that the CDC did not follow federal law when it imposed the mandate is almost certainly correct. New regulations must go through stringent procedures before being imposed, and until the Wuhan panic arrived, always did so. Since then however these procedures somehow no longer mattered, and government officials, both elected and unelected, suddenly decided they had the unilateral power to impose any rules they had dreamed up, instantly, with no new legislation, outside review, or debate.
Whether the pilots will win in court is questionable, not because they don’t have a case, but because the political winds are making it very difficult for the Biden administration to keep these insane edicts in force. Politics, not data, is going to force Biden to abandon the mandate, possibly as soon as April when the present extension expires. If not then, it will certainly be removed prior to the November elections, because the voters nationwide have finally seen through this charade, and are becoming increasingly pissed off that Democratic Party politicians, led by Joe Biden, seem eager to act like petty dictators based on nothing but mindless fear.
If so, the lawsuit will then be moot.
Is this you?
What happens next is what is really matters. Will the voters shrug their shoulders in November, forget the foolishness and goonlike behavior of these Democratic Party politicians for the past two years, and vote for them again? Or will the voters, especially ordinary Democrats, finally wake up and throw them out of office? The political winds suggest we should be hopeful the latter will happen. Recent experience — such as the failure of California’s voters to recall Governor Gavin Newsom — sadly suggests otherwise.
That Democrats might still adhere to this ugly, oppressive mindset, the rest of us must not kow-tow to it. They are utterly wrong, and they prove it repeatedly by their effort to censor, bully, blacklist, ostracize, and destroy anyone who dares point this out. Rather than bow to their intolerance, free Americans must stand up to these bullies, just as these pilots are doing in their lawsuit. Only then will the bullying stop, because bullies are in truth cowards, and always fold when faced with real and courageous opposition.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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How the CDC determines its mask policies
Don’t comply: Ten pilots from three different American airlines — American, Southwest, and JetBlue — have now sued the CDC over the Biden administrations mask mandate requiring everyone to wear masks on airplanes.
A group of commercial airline pilots filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an attempt to lift the federal transportation mask mandate.
In court paperwork, the 10 commercial airline pilots – who work for American JetBlue and Southwest – argued that the CDC issued an order “Requirement for Persons to Wear Masks While on Conveyances & at Transportation Hubs” on Feb. 1, 2020 “without providing public notice or soliciting comment.”
The pilots are asking the court to “vacate worldwide the FTMM (federal transportation mask mandate)” calling the move an “illegal and unconstitutional exercise of executive authority.”
Biden’s edict was first imposed on February 1, 2021, shortly after he took power. It has been extended several times since, the most recent extension keeping it in force through April 18, 2022. At no time, however, has any data been put forth by the CDC demonstrating that the required masks accomplish anything, while we already have decades of data showing that the masks are useless against viruses like the Wuhan flu.
This new lawsuit is the eighteenth filed against the mandate, though it is the first filed by those who work on the planes.
The pilots claim above that the CDC did not follow federal law when it imposed the mandate is almost certainly correct. New regulations must go through stringent procedures before being imposed, and until the Wuhan panic arrived, always did so. Since then however these procedures somehow no longer mattered, and government officials, both elected and unelected, suddenly decided they had the unilateral power to impose any rules they had dreamed up, instantly, with no new legislation, outside review, or debate.
Whether the pilots will win in court is questionable, not because they don’t have a case, but because the political winds are making it very difficult for the Biden administration to keep these insane edicts in force. Politics, not data, is going to force Biden to abandon the mandate, possibly as soon as April when the present extension expires. If not then, it will certainly be removed prior to the November elections, because the voters nationwide have finally seen through this charade, and are becoming increasingly pissed off that Democratic Party politicians, led by Joe Biden, seem eager to act like petty dictators based on nothing but mindless fear.
If so, the lawsuit will then be moot.
Is this you?
What happens next is what is really matters. Will the voters shrug their shoulders in November, forget the foolishness and goonlike behavior of these Democratic Party politicians for the past two years, and vote for them again? Or will the voters, especially ordinary Democrats, finally wake up and throw them out of office? The political winds suggest we should be hopeful the latter will happen. Recent experience — such as the failure of California’s voters to recall Governor Gavin Newsom — sadly suggests otherwise.
That Democrats might still adhere to this ugly, oppressive mindset, the rest of us must not kow-tow to it. They are utterly wrong, and they prove it repeatedly by their effort to censor, bully, blacklist, ostracize, and destroy anyone who dares point this out. Rather than bow to their intolerance, free Americans must stand up to these bullies, just as these pilots are doing in their lawsuit. Only then will the bullying stop, because bullies are in truth cowards, and always fold when faced with real and courageous opposition.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
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