As most people know the administration is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that the imposition of a mask mandate for planes, trains and busses was illegal. On Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was asked about his planned attendance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.
Buttigieg said he was planning to go. Fox News Brett Baier pressed him on why he was seeking to keep Americans masked on planes, etc. while he went maskless to a ballroom event. Buttigieg tried to denigrate the reporter by saying, “Most of us understand the difference between a hotel ballroom and an airplane.”
In doing so, Buttigieg once again displayed his ineptness. Airplane air filtration systems are way beyond anything seen in a hotel ballroom. Airplanes filter and clean the air in the entire plane every 2 minutes while ballrooms with massive volume have very limited air exchange or filtration.
Just what were this man’s qualifications for this job? Was this job the price of stepping out of the way so that Biden could be the Democratic candidate in 2020?
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