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-Great Cultural Revolution
Covidianism is dying. Formerly Woke CEOs are the killers.
2021-12-16
[PostMillennial] What these CEOs are not saying is that their aircrews are tired of idiots fighting about masks on their planes. They see the best way forward is to pull the gummint authoritah rug from beneath the Karens' feet.
The CEOs of two of America's largest airlines have come out and contested the notion that wearing masks is an effective way to halt the spread of COVID-19 on planes.

On Wednesday, the CEOs of two of America's largest airlines questioned the need for masks on planes. American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and Southwest's Gary Kelly made the comments after the topic of masks was brought up during a senate hearing regarding financial support given to airlines by the government during the pandemic.

As CNN reports, both CEOs noted that the HEPA filters used on most airplanes capture nearly all the "airborne contamination" and, along with the almost constant exchange of cabin air with fresh air, help provide an environment that is as clean, if not cleaner, than any other indoor space.
Posted by:M. Murcek

#6  The left has concentrated on infection rates because its scary bit death rates are what we should really be watching (with one eye on hospitalizations to prevent the hospitals being overwhelmed).

Death rates for Omicron show it is milder by a long shot.
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-12-16 13:55  

#5  Disinfo Mail, Where America Gets its COVID BS
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-16 13:26  

#4  Omicron may NOT be milder: Chris Whitty calls for 'caution' over promising Covid hospitalisation data in South Africa as nation's daily infections jump to ANOTHER high... but outbreak may have PEAKED in worst-hit province
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-16 13:22  

#3  But others are moving in the opposite direction, alas.

Even though the obvious intelligent policy -- obvious to anyone who understands basic facts about evolution and microbiology -- would be to ALLOW this vastly-milder, almost totally harmless variant to infect as many young and middle-aged people as possible so that it survives -- while the truly virulent, deadly variants die out along with the relatively small number of elderly and comorbid hosts they infect.

But no. Hysteria reigns.

And our children are forced to suffer the ghastly consequences. F--k these fools.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-16 11:36  

#2  Even my sister, who has been paranoid about her college students getting infected in her classroom, is looking forward to Omicron painlessly vaccinating the population, as it were.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-12-16 11:15  

#1  Turning point?
a la Stalingrad, November '42?
Where's our equivalent of Operation Uranus against the COVIDiots?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-16 11:06  

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