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Southwest is caught between the foolishness of the federal government and the growing frustration of their customers.  Simply paying attention to the warnings on the mask packages should end the debate for most rational people.  The warnings are some variant of the following:     WARNING:  This product is an ear loop mask.  This product is not a respirator and will not provide any protection against COVID-19 (Corona Virus) or other viruses or contaminants.     The face mask will not survive the test of time.  Southwest must consider carefully how they will survive the perception of hostile, overzealous flight attendants.   ... View more

It's not my job to go through the details.  Most don't know there is an alternative.  My point was to explain there is.  nitpicking is futile.  ... View more

You are incorrect.  I will not be next.    https://www.southwest.com/assets/pdfs/coronavirus/Mask-Exemption-Application-Form.pdf ... View more

May God save us from the insufferable busybody.  I cared for my completely disabled son for over 20 years with a severely depressed immune system.  I never asked a single person to do anything aside from telling the occasional child to back up and don't kiss my son.  To demand that others comply to your wishes or your imagined slights is the most insidious form of selfishness.  If you fear that other people might infect you, STAY HOME.  We often kept our son home for his safety.  Not once did I EVER think I had a right to impose upon others for his sake or mine.  This generation is mentally broken.    Your safety is you responsibility alone.  None of the rest of America should feel responsible for your health.  This is not a commune or a communist country. No matter if you take a car, bus, or airline.  You either take it as it is, or don't get on.  There will be a growing number of people that SouthWest and all airlines will be allowing to fly without a mask.  If that causes you distress, stay home.  I will not be wearing a mask.  You are powerless to change that or to even make me uncomfortable about it.  Why, is simply not your business.    ... View more

Why would wheels count or not count for checked luggage?  If you carry on a marginal bag, avoid the first 5 rows where the overhead storage is smaller on 737s.  When putting your luggage in the overhead, always put the wheels out to maximize fit in the bin.  ... View more

I would never tell you or anyone else what to wear or not wear.  85% of new covid patients are mask wearers.  Why is it easier to listen to a self conflicted bureaucrat on TV than to simply read the warnings from the mask manufacturers on the side of the box?     Further, the tears from your eyes drain directly into the back of the nasal cavity.  Anyone who takes eye drops should know this.  They've tasted the medication.  Why don't the doctors tell you that your wet eyeballs make a great virus delivery system?  Why are doctors the only ones wearing face shields?  To be fair, I have seen elderly women wearing masks and face shields on flights.  Good for them.  That is their choice.    https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/covid-19/can-i-get-covid-19-through-my-eyes-or-ears/article_a263b728-ae7a-11ea-bc14-13c67a94d4d2.html   "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."  -- C.S. Lewis   Americans and especially businesses should know better.  ... View more

I won't fly Southwest if they require a Vaccine.   I will buy my own twin turboprop private plane if needed and Southwest will have lost an A-List customer.  Airlines have tremendous lobbying power.  It is time they used it to save their business.     I have taken many vaccines.  I also know a lot about testing methodologies in corporations.  Testing, especially drug testing, cannot be rushed and it was.  I don't trust that the vaccine is being handled properly and kept below -13 to -94 F (depending upon the manufacturer).  I'm not willing to trust people with a cart blanche exemption from liability with my life.     I am watching my aunt's health deteriorate rapidly after her second shot.  The doctors don't expect her to live another month.  She was in good health before the vaccine.  I have had COVID.  I think the virus is safer.  At least in my case. "My body, my choice!"  Hasn't that been the mantra for decades?  Has it suddenly become an inconvenient truth?  ... View more

Southwest now allows mask exemptions --    https://community.southwest.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/Do-I-need-to-wear-a-mask-during-travel/ta-p/107173 ... View more

It is not a federal law with the full force of the legislature.  It is an executive order.  Funny how Trump haters were almost rabid to make that distinction under the last administration but willing to call any edict from the white house resident a law now.    Political busybody notions aside, The practical issues are obvious.     Masks do NOT help.  Read the warnings on the side of the box.  Are you going to believe a conflicted bureaucrat that contradicts his own published works and statements or the people who actually manufacture the masks?  Now Fauci wants people to wear two masks?  That is sadistic and dangerous to your health.     Masks restrict Oxygen.  Oxygen depravation may cause death, brain damage, blindness and cancer.  Put on a pulse oximeter from your local pharmacy or amazon for $30 and see what wearing a mask does to you.  If your oxygen drops below 92% for an extended period of time, see your doctor and get an exemption.  Get a covid test before you fly as it will be required.  These exemptions ARE part of the CDC guidelines and the current executive order.   Masks do nothing to restrict virus intake through the unfiltered wet surface of the eyes.    No one wears their mask properly and they touch it every time they eat, drink, or sneak a breath of fresh air increasing their exposure through their own hands far more than the mask will ever help.     The airlines need to lobby the white house or sue in federal court.  It is their job to serve their customers.  It is not their job to be a nasty enforcement arm of the unconstitutional actions of the federal government.  Neither Trump or Biden had the constitutional right to restrict the movements and actions of law abiding citizens.  This is the first time it has ever been done in U.S. history.  The courts move slowly and are only now starting to knock down these unconstitutional mandates.     https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/02/05/supreme-court-lifts-california-worship-bans-prompted-by-coronavirus-1362330 ... View more

It is NOT a federal law.  It is a regulation based in an Executive Order that can and should be overturned easily by federal courts.  Maybe you should know your facts instead of suggesting that others break the law.     Further, there are exemptions to the regulation.  You do not have to wear a mask if you have a doctors note and a negative COVID test.  There's just a small problem with that... Most people who have been vaccinated test positive for COVID making the test increasingly useless.    For reference:  https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/airlines-will-now-allow-passengers-to-fly-without-masks-after-biden-s-mandate-allows-for-medical-exemptions/ar-BB1dmjCJ ... View more