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‘It’s Time for Real Life’
Washington Dulles Airport buzzed with fully masked but not socially distanced travelers late on a rainy and unseasonably cold Monday afternoon. We were in the terminal that comprised mostly international flights, checked in and screened for a long flight over the Atlantic.
I had gotten used to not wearing a mask, and opted for glasses over contact lenses for the red-eye flight to Charles DeGaulle Airport in Paris. Ugh, I’d forgotten why I hated wearing masks with glasses. After all, every one of our nation’s 50 states, some since the beginning of the pandemic, had either eschewed or canceled most mask mandates, except for medical facilities and transportation. I had hoped that the CDC would allow their mandate to expire on April 18th, which was already the subject of a federal lawsuit from with support from major airlines and many others would win the day before our trip.
But not the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which of course extended the mandate until May 3 for public transportation, including airports and airlines. I’d been hoping they would follow even Hawaii’s lead (the last state to drop most mask mandates), but no. Back to this lovely look.
Well done! Sorry you weren’t on one of the flights I saw video from with cheers sounding out.
Don’t you still have to wear masks in the Paris Metro?