Well, this is sheer lunacy, in my opinion. If you're going to require an (unreliable) covid test for domestic airline travel, why not require a test every time someone steps out of their house? If you wanted to absolutely kill the travel industry, this is one way to start.
I hope that saner heads will prevail. While the American people voted for an administration to take covid more seriously than the last bunch of inept clowns, I really really hope that we haven't simply replaced one set of morons (deniers) with another set (over-reactors.)
I don't believe this is part of some 'concerted effort' to 'kill aviation because climate change.' Most politicians aren't *that* stupid. I think this is mainly a consequence of the classic failings of the political class, which is the frantic desire to 'be seen to be doing something,' even if that something makes no scientific sense.
Nitwits.