Originally Posted by
Elevation
I'm not sure he's making a decision about a job based on masks.
Masks required with the cockpit door open to passengers on out pax airplane. Masks required with the L1 door open and accessible to handlers for cargo planes. Masks are required in terminals, on the way to the plane, etc.
As for mask culture, we're not as unanymous on here as we think. So I'm not going to talk about anyone breaking a policy, especially one that's politically charged. Personally I actually wear my mask when I am supposed to. Bear in mind I am a nerd, and I haul my britches up to my belly button every third sentence when I speak to somebody. Seriously.
I do wear the mask. Masks are here to stay, regardless of what you think of them. Passengers, handlers, loaders, flight attendants have cell phones.
If we feel oppressed by masks, search your feelings about pants. We mostly wear pants for fear of getting in trouble too. The same threat of cell phones exists for pants. If the rules were different 75% of us would be Donald Ducking it at work. We'd just bring seat covers in our flight bags. The world is an arbitrarily repressive place.
The thing is, pants actually serve their intended purpose. In almost all scenarios aside from assless chaps, they prevent people from seeing things that they’d prefer not to see.
The data on masks casts major doubt on their efficacy, and at this point they’re basically being required on airplanes as a psychological tool to make the less astute among us “feel safe”. In reality, if you are really that scared of getting or spreading Covid, the last thing you should be doing is walking onto an airplane with two hundred other people who periodically remove their masks to eat and drink. Is it ever acceptable to briefly take off your pants on an airplane and then put them back on shortly after, pretending that the overall goal of pants-wearing has still been achieved? Pretending that this is an effective measure is about as sane as someone wearing the aforementioned assless chaps to work.