Since 9/11, air travel in America has been a bit of a pain in the neck–particularly if you are singled out for further scrutiny. There are a lot of elderly grandmothers that have been subjected to unnecessary screening so that screeners can’t be charged with profiling. Air travel isn’t as much fun when you have to take off your shoes and take your computer out of its case, etc. Some of those security precautions may actually be useful, but I suspect that some of them are simply for show. Well, things have the potential of getting worse. Representative Biggs is seeking to prevent that from happening.
Sara Carter reported the following yesterday:
Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs introduced legislation Monday preventing Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg from imposing Covid-19 testing mandates on air carriers for domestic flights, according to a press release.
Buttigieg revealed during an ‘Axios on HBO’ interview this past week that the Biden administration is evaluating a requirement that would make all passengers take a COVID test proving they’re negative before boarding any domestic and international flights in the United States.
“It is outrageous that the Biden administration is contemplating new regulations or guidelines to require passengers to undergo COVID-19 testing before domestic air travel,” said Biggs. He has has been outspoken on the extraordinary measures that have infringed on American freedoms during the coronavirus lockdowns.
“This is another unscientific, bureaucratic action designed to control Americans’ lives and increase dependence on government,” he said. “Further, such a mandate would devastate the airline industry and destroy massive sectors of our recovering economy.”
Biggs noted that he fly’s “domestically regularly each month, and I observe the efforts of the airlines to make each passenger safe. The Biden administration should listen to the airline executives and heed the science of healthy air travel. This misguided idea should not become implemented policy under any circumstances.”
Meanwhile we have people pouring over our southern border coming from a country (Mexico) that has the highest coronavirus fatality rate of the 20 countries most affected by the coronavirus (see article here). There is something basically illogical about putting an extra restriction on air travelers while letting the virus invade the country through a porous border.