Lot of "actually" guys in these replies. I've been saying for months that we should require vaccines to fly, obv with excecptions for the too-young or real medical reasons. Yes, I think it would boost overall rates, to what %, who knows. But what it would ALSO do...
...is cut violent incidents on planes way down.
It would slow the spread of fast-moving variants.
And, most importantly, it would put shift the penalties of the pandemic more squarely on to those who refuse to vax, where they should be.
It would slow the spread of fast-moving variants.
And, most importantly, it would put shift the penalties of the pandemic more squarely on to those who refuse to vax, where they should be.
And, in the case of a penalty for those who refuse to vaccinate but also want to fly, those inconveniences would fall on the relatively affluent, to boot.
Your body, your choice....to drive.
Your body, your choice....to drive.
Having foreigners display vaccine status to fly to US is performative compared to the real benefit that requiring it of domestic travelers as well. As Europe does, as Canada just started. Our airline deal with those rules there. We can do here.
And yeah, we could and should do for other forms of travel the feds have jurisdiction over, trains and buses. But start with flights and see how quickly a lot of people just get the jab.
As we've seen with other mandates
As we've seen with other mandates
We made vaccines free. We've made them widely available. We've run a massive public awareness campaign. Most people will get vaccinated if there's any penalty to not. A lot of folks even want to be "made" to do it so they don't have to admit they were wrong! Permission structure!
or you know, we could just keep allowing anti-maskers to disrupt flights and punch flight attendants and spread the virus. This chart has gotten recently worse thanks largely to Thanksgiving travel/gatherings, and it's about to get a whole lot worse. 
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