Airplanes Have Better Air Quality than ICUs, Theaters, Most Indoor Spaces so Why are We Still Wearing Masks on Board?

Our gut tells us that mask mandates on crowded and enclosed airplanes make good sense. All those people cramped together in that flying tube really need to wear those uncomfortable face coverings, even if parents must force their cranky children to keep their masks on or get thrown off the flight.

Not so fast.

Republican Senator Roger Wicker asked some pointed questions about the quality of the air on a flight as compared to a theater, a church, a concert hall, perhaps a hearing room like the one Sen. Wicker is sitting in (smiles)?

He received an interesting answer from the Delta Airlines COO, John Laughter. Said Delta’s COO, the cycle of the air pressure in an airline cabin and the way it turns over through the filtration system is superior to many indoor spaces on the ground–evan an ICU at a hospital!

Another exec testified that airline air filtration systems filter the air over 20 times an hour. Sitting next to someone on an airplane was equivalent to being 15 feet away from them on the ground.

Since the feds control the airlines, air carriers have no choice. They have to insist on strict enforcement of the mask mandate or risk sanctions. The danger here is that mask wearing could become as institutionalized as the ridiculous TSA screening that travelers have endured all these years after 9-11. Everyone now has to take their shoes off because some dufus nearly blew his foot off with a dopey shoe bomb over 20 years ago.

Watch Robby Soave’s on Hill TV’s “Rising” delve deeper into this madness—which shows no sign of abating.