John Forbes Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, while sitting in first-class, took off his mask today as he settled into his book moments before his American Airlines flight from Boston to Washington took off.
The so-called Climate Envoy was not eating, nor drinking, even though first-class passengers are often served before take-off.
In its Feb. 1 press release, “American Airlines Aligns Existing Mask Requirements with US Government Mandate,” the airline’s Chief Operating Officer David Seymour said American would fully comply with President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s mask regulations.
“Our mask requirement has been and will continue to be a critical component of our comprehensive effort to protect the health and well-being of our customers and team members during the pandemic,” said Seymour. “This federal mandate will provide additional support to our crew members who are working diligently to enforce our policy and further reinforce the safety of air travel during COVID-19.”
“As before, customers are required to wear masks for the duration of their journey, including at the airport and on board the aircraft. Children under the age of two will continue to be exempt from the mask requirement,” the release said. “Consistent with U.S. government directives, individuals who refuse to wear a mask may be denied boarding, removed from the aircraft or subject to penalties under federal law, in addition to being barred from future travel with American.”
In his March 11 address to the Nation, Biden said: “We need everyone to get vaccinated. We need everyone to keep washing their hands, stay socially distanced, and keep wearing the masks as recommended by the CDC.”
The Center for Disease Control issued a Jan. 29 order, under its authority from the Public Health Act, that became effective Feb. 2, which reads in part: “People must wear masks that cover both the mouth and nose when awaiting, boarding, traveling on, or disembarking public conveyances. People must also wear masks when entering or on the premises of a transportation hub in the United States.”
The order specifically rules out scarves, ski masks, balaclavas, or bandannas or even shirt or sweater collars, such as turtleneck collars pulled up over the mouth and nose.
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Neil W. McCabe is a Washington-based national political reporter for The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. In addition to the Star Newspaper, he has covered the White House, Capitol Hill and national politics for One America News, Breitbart, Human Events and Townhall. Before coming to Washington, he was a staff reporter for Boston’s Catholic paper, The Pilot, and the editor of two Boston-area community papers, The Somerville News and The Alewife. McCabe is a public affairs NCO in the Army Reserve and he deployed for 15 months to Iraq as a combat historian.
Don’t you peasants get it yet? <r Kerry and his fellow Leftists are privileged and special people who can not abide the same treatment as you common rabble. Your job and only tasks are to suck it up, do what you are told, and fork over your earnings to the more deserving and special people. These select few are your masters and you had better keep your mouths shut about it or you can suffer the wrath of the chosen elite.
Folks, when will everyone realize politicians don’t care about rules, unless it applies to somebody else.
Honestly, is ANYONE surprised by this?
At least he’s not flying a private jet this time.
Why isn’t Kerry on the Do Not Fly List?
Because he is in charge of Climate Change and HAS to be places. You can’t just stop a man like him from boarding a plane because he doesn’t fit your ‘lifestyle’. These comments are incredibly ignorant. Sen Kerry has to get on more planes than ANYONE and works harder than anyone you will probably ever know. He is protecting your future for YOUR kids and grandkids.
And you’re an idiot
Beatrice,
I want to apologize on behalf of the commenters that “ain’t from around here” due to the national attention this story has garnered. I think you may be misunderstood. Mission Accomplished.
Leave Kerry alone. Imagine he had a bag of trail mix and was munching on it. Would that magically prevent infection? Yet it would make him 100% compliant with the “rules” arbitrarily dictated by the proven faillures in government. And I say this as someone who voted for “W”, and thinks 21st century liberalism is not far from mental illness.
I never like the guy, and was extremely happy when he lost to Bush. Very much in the mold of a know it all, I’m better than you Al Gore type. Do as I say, not as I do. Not even ONE of his former soldiers that served with him in Vietnam. In fact they went AGAINST him even. That really says something about him.
The “Climate Envoy” shows you that COVID-19 restrictions are for you plebes, not for ruling class. Now, get your mRNA product and keep wearing your mask.
Kerry is a despicable traitor and obviously a .hypocrite. Just go spend your wife’s ketchup money and leave the rest of us alone, Johhhny Boy…
You and Commie Jane Fonda are two of a kind.
How hypocritical, Chief Petty Officer Rob Oneil (Seal who killed Bin Laden)was banned from Delta for taking a quick selfie without his mask. Let’s see what happens to Kerry.
Kerry should be taken to court – just like any “Joe-Sixpack” and face ALL the laws and fines, that are applicable!! He is an arrogant SOB!T!
Burqa nation. Wow. The WWII generation is rolling in their graves.
He’ll give us 57 reasons why he failed to do so.
Who said that Richard Gere was The American Gigolo?
His thought bubble …. “oh, you thought I meant me?”
Another political entitled asshole