Dorothy Philbin | CNBNews

Planning to fly?  You can now do it mask free, thank you to an 11th District Federal Court judge, centered in Florida.  On the evening news was a clip from inside a plane.  People’s cell phones were going off, masks were being torn off and people were applauding.  So, what happened?

The federal judge ruled, as other courts before, that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) only has the responsibility to advise the government and citizens.  It does not have the authority to make law, as it has been doing for the past two years.  The big difference in this case is that this was a federal decision.  The decision applies only to those areas within the lawsuit.  In this case, federal transportation – plane travel, TSA agents within airports, trains and buses because they are federally funded.  Only minutes after the decision was made public the following airlines announced that masks are now optional:  Alaska Airline, American, Delta, Frontier/Spirit (now merged,) Jet Blue, Southwest, and United.

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