Last night I had boarded a flight out of Philly and one of the flight attendants almost cause a riot. She was clearly very low experience and was making some of the announcements and obviously reading from their script. She finished one announcement and started her next announcement which was the announcement about the REQUIREMENT to wear masks at all times. She even got as far as the part about you must only remove your mask to eat or drink and you must replace it immediately. She realized what she was doing and eventually stopped in the middle of a sentence. She made no apology, no explanation, no back pedal. The interesting thing was the reaction I observed from the other passengers. I think we got close to a mutiny on that plane. It does concern me a little that American Airlines still has that in their library of announcement scripts - like they are ready to pull it back out at a moment’s notice. But the reaction on that flight and my observation that the masktards are outnumbered at least a thousand to one at airports tells me that people will not stand for it if they try that crap again.
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Well said. My wife recently flew from SeaTac to Honolulu. No masks except the usual Asians
To be fair, I often saw Asians wearing masks BEFORE covid.
From my understating, it's a cultural politeness to wear a mask when you yourself don't feel well.
Plus, if I lived in an area with the population density of Tokyo, I'd probably wear a mask too.
Maybe it's cultural hallitosis.
They eat a lot of fish, so it might be cat breath.
Maybe they eat a lot of cats so it might be fish breath.
I mean, that would ALSO be considered politeness. 😅
After the SARS scare in 2002, many people in Asia got used to wearing masks. Now it’s common for everyone to wear them on public transportation during cold and flu season, for example.
Yeah, I see that even here in east Tennessee, a LOT of Asians wearing masks while virtually no one else is. Very curious.
They have been doing it for decades. They wear masks normally in their homelands mostly due to pollution
I found out from an Asian person in Los Angeles why you’ll see Asian women wearing gloves while driving, it’s so they don’t get a sun tan on their hands... wanting to keep a fair, light skin complexion. The more you know!
A good way to deplete your vitamin D levels even further!