Like the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz, the federal mask mandate on airlines dissolved on April 18.
After 15 months, millions of flyers masked against the threat of COVID-19, and almost 10,000 unruly passenger incidents, all it took was a Florida Federal judge’s ruling that the CDC lacked legal authority to enforce the mandate. And just like that, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the airlines said, enough already. Masks are now optional at airports and on aircraft.
In a bombshell 59-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division concluded that
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