A group of Democratic lawmakers including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Eric Swalwell this week wrote a letter calling for a requirement that domestic air passengers show proof of their full COVID-19 vaccination status or a recent negative test.
Feinstein, D-California, and Swalwell, D-Castro Valley, joined Reps. Ritchie Torres, D-New York, and Don Beyer, D-Virginia, in sending the letter to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Steve Dickson.
The four lawmakers noted that both proof of COVID-19 vaccination and a negative test is already required for people coming to the U.S. from a foreign country, but domestic travelers are not even required to show that they have recently tested negative for the virus.
Proof of vaccination or a negative test are also required for domestic travelers flying to Hawaii, otherwise they are required to quarantine after arriving.
“Ensuring the health and safety of air travelers and their destination communities is critical to mitigating the ongoing COVID-19 surge, especially as the virus continues to evolve,” they said in the letter.
Last month, the four lawmakers and 32 other members of Congress wrote a letter to President Joe Biden also calling for a vaccination and negative test requirement.
Feinstein has also introduced a bill that would require airlines to confirm that their passengers are full vaccinated, have tested negative or are fully recovered from the virus.
On Monday, Swalwell said in a Twitter post that it is “one-hundred percent batty” that unvaccinated people have carte blanche to fly domestic.
“It’s unsafe in the cabin and we are transporting the virus,” Swalwell said. “Requiring the vaccine to fly is the LEAST we can do to stop the spread.”
A mid-November Harris Poll survey of roughly 2,000 U.S. adults found that 66 percent were in favor of airlines requiring proof of vaccination to board a domestic flight.
Last month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg suggested in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press that such a mandate was not imminent and that current measures like mask requirements when flying and in airports and vaccine requirements for those in the travel industry were enough to keep passengers safe.
“What we’re doing right now is working to make air travel safe,” he said. “It’s a little bit of a different picture, of course, when you have international travel because different countries have different standards … but between the masking and the other mitigations, we’re very confident in the safety of air travel.”
I’ll drive, they can KMA,
Feinstein is hysterical and Swalwell is xenohobic !
Both of them are fear mongering racists!
Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy for how many years?
Next step will be you need to be vaccinated to participate in any commerce, including buying food.
What does that sound like?
Feinstein’s senile, Swalwell needs penicillin.
“Two weeks to flatten the curve”
Good! If airlines want to pack us in like sardines i at least want to know the person sharing my armrest doesn’t have a communicable respiratory disease that has killed 800,000 Americans in under two years.
What’s the matter matty? You don’t trust the Trump sauce? Everyone getting the omicron is jabbed up anyway. Boostas don’t work on the omicron anyway. Pretty sure you don’t need a vaccine for a runny nose do you?
800,000 have died WITH testing positive for covid. There has been NO statistical rise in death rates over the last two years. We’re almost two years into “Two weeks to flatten the curve.” Do your own digging of information. Do not simply believe what is fed to you by the six media outlets. Also if you want an historical reflection, read up on Weimar Germany and the period immediately following it.
Rat- you cannot cure the stupidity that person is evidencing. They only parrot.
Swawell’s lover from China gave him this bad idea.
I can’t help wondering how many of those would have died without the Corona Virus.
I’m a lot younger than Diane, but I learned something a long time ago that she must not have. Sometimes the correct course of action is to take no action at all.
It’s important to know what to do, but it’s just as important to know what not to do.
These lawmakers have far too much time on their hands coming up with all kinds of ways to pass new BS laws or regulations. Their lawmaker status needs to be reduced from a full time job to a part time job, they need less time to find ways to mess with us. They also need to be severely restricted on how much they can collaborate on the public dime. They should be allowed a number of communication hours each year paid for by the public, and that’s it. They need to learn to be efficient and effective when speaking to one another, all they do now is scheme on how to collaborate to commit crimes and undermine our country. It shouldn’t be easy to pass new laws that restrict us even more.
Until they can gain trust back they should be treated like kindergartners that do not know right from wrong, because they clearly do not.
They also clearly do not know the vaccinated are the ones spreading the virus, so not only do they act like children they can’t read very well either.
Well said Bruh!
A person can get a negative test and five minutes later somebody with COVID can cough or sneeze, and infect them. Also, showing proof of a vaccine doesn’t necessarily mean a person isn’t infected.
I chose not to fly ever again after being groped by a TSA agent for no reason. None. Vaccine status aside, if I am travelling anywhere I will be driving. The power hungry are insidious and invading our privacy and freedoms…what we have left of them.
I am delighted to hear that Lawmakers demanding that stringent rules for airplane travel during this trying time with the Covid pandemic.
I’d like to see airlines restricted to serving fully vaxed people only.
Enough of this vaxed and un-vaxed nonsense.
Everyone should be vaxed, no exceptions.
Zig Heil!
It’s funny this all the Democratic lawmakers who really are not for democracy & freedom anymore.
I’m quite sure you would be all for the US to implement such solutions as Manzanar, and Howard Springs in Australia.
Roundup the unclean and put them in camps.
Guess we know what you would have done in Nazi Germany. Congrats for being a horrible person.
I think these lawmakers should focus on the millions that are illegally crossing the border. Once our stupid leaders start forcing the shot or negative tests to come into the country then I would think differently. Until then, they can all shove it.
Let’s see their bank transactions………both are beholden to big pHarma and those who make these testing kits.
Everyone knows about Swalwell and the Chinese Spy.
If this would have been a requirement all along we wouldn’t be in this situation again.They keep changing the rules all the time.Stick to them until this crap is over.
I want check points on the roads. All the unclean should be rounded up and placed in camps.
It’s laughable that you think this will ever be over. This will be over as soon as colds are eradicated. So… This is what happens when people don’t know how to think for themselves. A great example of that!
Lets turn to a political cartoonist,
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/30220
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… left wingers will support anything to control the population and preserve their power.
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Let’s Go Brandon!
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Why is there any test exception at all if you’re vaccinated? Vaccinated people are spreading covid with breakthrough infections left and right. They should have to test negative too. Pack a plane with 80 vaccinated people and some of them are bound to be infected.
Vaccinated are sucking up the services getting vaccinated, vaccinated, boosted, boosted, again, and tested, tested, tested … endlessly … so that unvaccinated can’t get accesses to services. I have seen vaccinated walking out of CVS with HANDFULS of test kits. How many test kits can one person use in a lifetime? People have gone positively nuts over this. Stop blaming the unvaccinated and take a look at how vaccinated are hogging the services. You can’t even get the informational websites to work, the vaccinated are so busy hanging there on every word. There is a personality type that thrives on this sort of chaos and it’s the VACCINATED.
Kinda silly since airline employees aren’t required to be vaxxed, not to mention that being jabbed does not prevent illness nor stop transmission. Only idiots would think this is any kind of solution.
And after that almost bankrupts the entire airline industry, they can start charging $10K for flights between SFO and LAX and we can return to the good old days when flying was only for the rich. Yeah, I’m all for it.
The poors can ride the bullet train, lol.
I did a lot of travel by plane from the 1970s through the 1990s. Less so after 9-11. Some of my trips were last minute though short distances so I would book a first class seat (often the only available seats). Indeed I would find some people in first class who would turn up their noses at “riff-raft” seated there. I pretty much figured the rich were really upset at all the folks traveling globally back when such travel was such a bargain. So it goes.
Covid, covid, mandate, mandate, masks, masks, masks, vaccine, vaccine and no one talks about the elephant in the room. The Chines Communists..
They are so far away. Let’s talk about the american communists who take money from communist china. Or let’s talk about the democrats who conspired with with internationalists to overthrow our country. It’s called treason.
So unvaxxed cannot travel by air. Next will be the roadways. Then will be no shopping for them.
//Sarcasm On//
We can have camps for them in the mountains. We would need to separate the men from the women, likley kids from parents. We can force them to take meds. And if they die, well they were unvaxxed, so no loss, right?
From there, we will create an underground railroad led by an escapped unvaxed. Maybe we will have old planes, flown by unvaxxed pilots!
And in 150 years, our states (or whatever they are called) can be resitutions to those that were treated unfairly because they were not vaxxed.
//Sarcasm off//
As sarcastic as all that is, we are moving towards that quickly in this world. Where will be in 2 years, 5 years etc … We have many people (Oldtimer, Cellophane, Matt) on this site alone that think this is a great idea … they would support all of my saracasm above. We need to be like the Rocklin School District that has passed a resolution that they will not follow the mandates of Newscum.
What a surprise. Really, didn’t we all know this was coming? Take an honest look at the trajectory of this fake pandemic. I knew all along this was where it would go. I also know how it will end. If you think this is bad, stay tuned. It will get worse.
There is no greater waste of space in politics than Eric “Fang Fang” Swalwell.
The punishment for treason is still death by firing squad or hanging. Swalwell is a chinese asset. But he’s not the only one. Funny how it’s him and feinstein pushing this. Didn’t she have a legit chinese spy as her driver for the last 30 years? Time to face the facts people. There’s no other explanation here.
Would this also apply to illegals being flown around the country by our government?
Absolutely not. That’s why I only eat at Mexican restaurants. Everyone knows the county will never mess with them for checking vax status. Mexicans are more Americans then Americans.
C.S. Lewis: “A tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” American Thinker — https://bit.ly/3Elrvet
Let’s see, this had been going on for over 21 months and the government still refuses to pass legislation to address a Covid-19 issue.
Maybe we should just change our government from a constitutional republic to authoritarian rule by fiat. Seems the more appropriate description. 🤔
Welcome to the new world of anti-social paranoid, schitzophrenic hypochondria,brought on by the Big Dumb Dem Party..
Just heard New York will soon be voting on bill to have authority to place unjabbed in detention centers, who their government determines to be a threat to public health. Could be covid, or any other illness.
6 months from now it will be interstate travel by car, then in 12 months between cities, then in 18 you won’t be able to leave your home, 2 years till aggressive mandatory relocation to concentration camps.