Entire Plane Claps After Anti-Maskers Get Thrown off Flight

[marmar]

Despite it being over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, still not everyone is on board with mask guidelines—literally speaking.

In a viral TikTok post, an anti-mask couple is removed from a flight for refusing to comply with the airline's safety protocols.

The video, posted by user @b_edler56 and discreetly filmed from a few rows back, shows the couple arguing with a flight attendant.

Since the footage starts mid-conflict, the context for the argument is unknown—but when the video starts, the woman is already heated. ............(more)

https://www.newsweek.com/entire-plane-claps-after-anti-maskers-get-thrown-off-flight-1580676

[samnsara]

1. how do they even get past that first gate?

[marmar]

2. They wear the mask through the boarding process, then start clowning on the plane.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. That's what I want to know

[Skittles]

5. they wait until they have a captive audience

assholes

[leftieNanner]

4. I don't get it

They have on masks.

[rpannier]

12. That was my thought

The only thing I can think of is, they refused until they were told to get off the plane, and then they decided they would wear them. And by then, it was too late

[wnylib]

17. That's my impression, too.

You see the same thing in stores. People wear a mask on entering, then pull it down to their neck after they get past the entrance. If they see a store employee, they pull the mask up briefly, then pull it down again later.

So if the passenger in the video wore a mask when boarding and pulled it down later, and only pulled it back up when the flight attendant showed up, I understand and approve of the attendant telling her to leave. This is the kind of person who would remove the mask as soon as they were airborne, since they can't make her leave at that point.

[Aristus]

21. Yeah, but failure to comply while airborne is a felony.

Charge them, convict them, then send them someplace where failure to comply with instructions just leads to more time to serve...

[lindysalsagal]

22. That seems to be the point.

I love a good airplane video.

[Mz Pip]

6. They had masks on.

This may have been more about interfering with a flight attendant.

[lpbk2713]

7. Be a dickhead in your own home all you want to.

But do not endanger others while you are out in public.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. It doesn't compare to the loud clapping during...

... one of my "comparative economics" classes in school, which was one of the many general education requirements at my university.

One of the students was apparently going to school on the GI Bill, since he loved mentioning that he'd previously served in the Army. He was so insanely disruptive in that class, repeatedly accusing the professor of trying to turn us against America. Meanwhile, the professor was always polite and soft-spoken, explaining it was a course that explored alternative economic ideas. It persisted throughout two entire lectures, then started again during the third one.

I hit my boiling point with that guy and I was seconds away from yelling at him, but another student beat me to the punch and yelled, "Why don't you shut the fuck up so the rest of us can finally learn something in this class?!"

Then Army-guy stood up and yelled back, which caused an avalanche of other students to do the same to him. He finally walked out of the classroom as every other student was clapping and cheering his departure. (He never returned.)

The professor was silent during the entire conflict, and then he resumed teaching the course.

[FarPoint]

9. I like your peers!

Professor was smart to sit back and let the group make the confrontation.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. I think EVERY other student was yelling at him...

... once the floodgates were opened (including me).

That was back in the late-80's. He was red-faced and flipped us the bird as he walked out the door, like the woman in this video.

[jaxexpat]

11. That's why they're called "pro" fessors.

[lindysalsagal]

23. Great story. Thanks.

[SoonerPride]

24. I loved this story. A lot!

Thank you for sharing it.

I am applauding loudly at my desk!

[Initech]

13. Getting back to normal society should be a reward for those of us who are taking this seriously.

Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers can go wallow in their own self pity.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. And now they can go wallow on the no-fly list!

FREEEEE DUUUMB!

[Initech]

19. Hey just like the Capitol Rioters!

I'm finally seeing an upside to this!

[BComplex]

20. Yesterday at Easter family gathering, (all adults have been vaccinated) a right wing

relative said that she doesn't want the younger children to get the vaccine because "they're saying the vaccine causes sterility, but the government doesn't want you to know that".

Where do they get this stuff? I thought I had heard every conspiracy theory they had dreamed up so far! Then this. It has been scientifically debunked, but right wingers don't care about science.

[Initech]

25. I think they just make shit up and hope something sticks.

That seems to be the MO for most of right wing talk radio.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Put these assholes on the no fly list

[Hekate]

16. I am truly for that. This anti-social behavior has gone far enough. nt

[mdbl]

15. only magats enjoy endangering other people for their own egos

assholes