Nick Goldberg: The jerk next to me on the plane wouldn't wear a mask. Here's why I didn't do anything.
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Still, there’s something especially bad about a half-wit who defies the nation’s health and safety laws inches away from you, for hours on end, in the middle of a pandemic that has killed over 4.5 million people. That’s worse than chucking a banana peel in the rich people's galley, isn’t it?
If I knew my seatmate's name, I’d wholeheartedly recommend him for a worldwide no-fly ban.
@Nick_Goldberg
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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Is there an actual law re masked face on flights? Isn't it just a airline policy-cum-rule and merely a government guideline? Neither policy/rule nor guideline trumps basic rights. If an actual federal law, then, it was not cited nor could it supersed basic rights.
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Not an actual pandemic now, if it ever was.
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Not 'over 4.5 million' people have been killed by C19. Death by vs death with.
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Ineffective 'source control' is really against ordinary human interactions and ordinary human breathing. The author of the article sat beside the passenger, anyway, and did not move to another seat so the author could not have been so terrified afterall.
These are the stories that keep the brainwashing baloon in the air.
ALSO - the author cited an example of a cocaine-using unruly passenger and by implication the author slurred the passenger seated beside him who 'rebelled' against the masking rule.