News and notes from around the interweb:
- It’s beginning to take a lot for passenger behavior at an airport to impress me.
This child at the airport is killing me pic.twitter.com/axacS0ElXK
— groucho marxist (@amymarieberger) July 10, 2021
- Two people got Legionnaires’ disease from a Ramada hotel hot tub the risk of contracting this is greater by the way at hotels that have been closed with no one running the water.
- The new Amex Platinum digital entertainment credit can be used for home delivery of the New York Times go figure.
- A supersonic plane without a sonic boom?
- The old New Orleans airport terminal was abandoned in November 2019. It’s still perfectly serviceable, but the new one is much nicer. Here’s the final day of the old terminal:
- United CEO Scott Kirby thinks the federal mask mandate will expire September 13th. Of course that means the federal government is abdicating use of science – the ‘correct’ date is almost certainly earlier or later than that, just allowing the rule to sunset is a cop out.
United Airlines CEO on mask mandate on planes: “The current government order expires on September 13, and fingers crossed, my guess is it will expire on September 13, but we'll wait and see for sure.” pic.twitter.com/RlwUK4RVe7
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 11, 2021
Well, the New York Times is nothing but pure fantasy so….
I just hope that the airlines allow mask rules to disappear with the Federal mandates. The insane unions seem to believe that keeping the #1 source of travel conflict, passenger discomfort, and parental stress in place in spite of the science is supremely important.
As is wrapping oneself in a Q-tRump prayer towel while fantasizing with Tucker?
@Amazing Larry
I see you have still not regained all your faculties. LOL
@ Amazing Larry — The NY Times is the only newspaper worth reading. Perhaps it has too many big words for you to comprehend?
@ Gary — I ordered my free (well, 12/13 free) NY Times Sunday home delivery + electronic access 2 days ago! Not, it will be interesting to see if it is actually read, or just carried around on trips and then thrown in the recycling.
I consider the NYT to be something similar to the Guardian in England. An interesting lefty read that occasionally contains an article with a scintilla of unbiased real-world information. Not that I would consider subscribing to either. Nor does one need to in order to access them.
The Guardian runs Yotam Ottolenghi recipes every Saturday which can still be accessed for free. Other than that, it’s pretty worthless, unless one whishes to keep track of the latest activities of the anti-Semitic Left – the UK usually precedes the US by 6-12 months.
Re: crazy climber kid
I was more impressed with the video you posted a couple of years ago with a woman limboing under those standard black and chrome airport seats.
After the recent outdoor spread of the delta variant of covid at a wedding between fully vaccinated passengers, do you still believe that masks are no longer necessary?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/07/12/outdoor-wedding-6-fully-vaccinated-infected-with-covid-19-delta-variant/?sh=624d74dd6c49
It seems plausible that masks also aren’t very effective at stopping the spread of the delta variant.
@Dylan –
I don’t think we know enough about this event yet actually, generally an event that takes partially outdoors is categorized as outdoors. We don’t believe that there’s zero transmission outdoors just historically during the pandemic very little. And it’s not certain that the transmission here actually happened outside. Although it’s clear Delta is more transmissible than earlier variants.
The mere existence of breakthrough infections doesn’t tell us much, those are to be expected, here though it does not appear that individuals who received mRNA vaccines were *doing the spreading*. And those who did come down with infections were older with comorbidities. We may need booster shots…
That said unless we mandate good masks and learn to wear them properly and require them to be worn properly a mandate is silly theater in any case.