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Alaska will hand out 'yellow card' for passengers not wearing face masks
Alaska Airlines will hand out 'yellow card' or formal warnings for passengers that are not wearing face coverings. (www.washingtonpost.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Because we have 50 policies on how to handle face masks for all businesses, Alaska can pretty much do what they want. I don't agree with 50 policies, but that's what were're left with. I'd play the guilt card to passengers. "Passengers, you may not want to wear a mask, but the passenger next to you might be a cancer survivor or other high risk person. Please wear a mask to protect them".
N95 masks from 3M (the best) only work on the large water droplets caused by coughing or spitting from humans. They have a very small filtering (negligible) effect on the small droplets issued by normal breathing, particularly the low volume put out by nose breathing. Play the proper guilt card (a rational one) and you will have a better chance i.e. If you are coughing or sneezing you should wear a mask, otherwise I might get sprayed by you?" Or "Do you understand why spitting on people is considered a bad behavior in our society? Please don't spit on me, spit into your mask instead."
The guilt card I play back to people who tell me to wear a mask when there is no need. "If the government told you to jump into a fire - would you do it?, so surely you should have sufficient intelligence and high school training to evaluate the science and make a decision for yourself first and then others?" or "Just because this has a placebo effect on you why do you think it should have one for me?"
The guilt card I play back to people who tell me to wear a mask when there is no need. "If the government told you to jump into a fire - would you do it?, so surely you should have sufficient intelligence and high school training to evaluate the science and make a decision for yourself first and then others?" or "Just because this has a placebo effect on you why do you think it should have one for me?"
The yellow card does little to protect other passengers. Kick them off the plane.
I think that you are missing the point. The yellow card is to "shame people" so that other people can feel better about themselves - just like in many schools where the "bad" pupil is told to stand in a corner in the classroom so that the other (rule abiding) pupils can feel good about themselves. "Who wants to be the guy in the corner; I wouldn't want to be him and I feel better that I am not him - I feel better - Yay". It's about the perception of action being an improvement to the situation. Its not about the action actually improving things - as you point out. Masks don't ACTUALLY improve the Covid19 transmission situation much (they only work for coughing or spitting) but they have a great calming, "feel good" effect on PAX (called the placebo effect in western medicine) so why not provide them. Its worked on Japanese and Chinese airlines for years where because they used them for city particulate pollution PM2.5 they then decided that that they felt better wearing them in a confined space too. The airlines (and there fellow passengers were tolerant) except after 911 when they were shamed because everybody knew that "only terrorists or robbers wear masks" to hide their face. Sigh. Humans.
Not sure that would be practical, Frank - seems the issue usually becomes apparent after the plane is in the air.
I don’t see the problem there... ;P