Mask mandate on airplanes: Right idea with wrong implementation

Mask mandate on airplanes: Right idea with wrong implementation
Sheldon H. Jacobson, opinion contributor
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Mask mandate on airplanes: Right idea with wrong implementation
President Biden's executive order requiring face coverings on commercial air travel, based on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notice, is designed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 within the nation's air transportation system.
Asymptomatic transmission accounts for over one-half of all new infections. Face coverings provide the best method to reduce such transmissions, particularly when physical distancing is infeasible. Unfortunately, Biden's order is unnecessary and may make air travel less secure.
Airlines have been requiring passengers to wear face covering for several months. Those who have defy such requirements are placed on no-fly lists, now totaling over 2,700 people. The new order mandates face coverings in all areas of the air system, including airport security checkpoints, throughout airport concourses and on commercial flights, which is already widely occurring.

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