#WestJet did receive a whopping $700,000 from Premier Ford for their pandemic losses. That amount was the maximum grant allowable under the taxpayer-funded Ontario Tourism Recovery Program designed to compensate the tourism industry.
It might be worth noting that WestJet's CEO is also anti-vax & anti-mask.
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Anti-mandate is **not** anti-mask or anti-vax.
I know nothing about this guy and maybe he is all those things. But him blasting the feds for mandates does NOT automatically mean he is against masks or vaccines.
@freemo @gemelliz @myeyesaredim @Pinchy63
In the past year we have clearly seen that if you do not mandate masks on planes, the majority will not wear them. These are often the people who never wear masks and are therefore more likely to be infected.
Masks prevent the virus getting into the air that others must breathe. Masks are much more effective as source control (i.e., the infected person wears them) than as protection (although fit-tested N95s provide quite some protection).
@ABScientist @gemelliz @myeyesaredim @Pinchy63
> In the past year we have clearly seen that if you do not mandate masks on planes, the majority will not wear them. These are often the people who never wear masks and are therefore more likely to be infected.
Thats probably true sure.
> Masks prevent the virus getting into the air that others must breathe. Masks are much more effective as source control (i.e., the infected person wears them) than as protection (although fit-tested N95s provide quite some protection).
The effectiveness of masks is debatable, but for the purpose of this thread lets assume what you said is true... ok. Doesnt make what I said any less true. Even if mask/vax mandates are reasonable and a good idea to support them... being against mandates is **not** the same as being against masks or vaccines.
@freemo @gemelliz @myeyesaredim @Pinchy63
In practice it might be best to have flights with or without a mask mandate.
People who do not want to wear a mask can then book the flight without masks.
People who rather not want to get ill, can book the flight with a mandate.
@freemo @gemelliz @myeyesaredim @Pinchy63
Before Covid the protection from respirators (N95/KN95/FFP2/FFP3) against bacterial and viral infections has never been a debate.
For example, against Tuberculosis, these respirators provide good protection, while surgical masks provide much less protection.
Mask mandates may be less effective than masks themselves, because people get so much misinformation about masks not working, that they do not wear them consistently.
I dont think anyone in this thread is even debating whether masks can be effective or not. So not sure the relevance to the thread here.
