Brandon Straka was booted off an American Airlines bound for Tulsa for refusing to wear a face mask on the flight. His argument is that it's not Federal law.
Technically, he's right. However, Mr. Straka is ignorant of the present conditions. We are still in the middle of a pandemic. He had purchased tickets for President Trump's Saturday rally in Tulsa, where the vain Trump won't wear a mask himself in public, and has insisted on having the rally despite the fact that coronavirus numbers have spiked in recent days in the southern states, and calls from local officials to postpone the event again, as it was originally penciled in for tomorrow (Juneteenth).
Mr. Straka is putting his life on the line, as are thousands of Trump supporters, by taking the risk of going to the rally unmasked. Oklahoma is one of the states reporting recent increases in coronavirus cases, and there is every reason to believe there will be another spike, not only in Tulsa, but across the country, in the aftermath of the rally.
Andy Warhol once said that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. He never said dying would be a requisite. We'll send Mr. Straka a custom-made Dunce Cap, and yes, it'll have a face mask attached.
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