{"id":1447430,"date":"2022-04-20T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447430"},"modified":"2022-04-20T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:50:47","slug":"psaki-responds-to-videos-of-people-celebrating-pulling-off-masks-on-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-responds-to-videos-of-people-celebrating-pulling-off-masks-on-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Responds To Videos Of People Celebrating, Pulling Off Masks On Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-responds-to-videos-of-people-celebrating-pulling-off-masks-on-planes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447430&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki downplayed Americans\u2019 enthusiasm for the end of the federal mask mandate during a Tuesday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw a lot of Americans \u2026 immediately pulling off their masks on airplanes very happy about the change,\u201d a reporter said in his questions to Psaki. \u201cIs the administration concerned that the public is moving on \u2026 without the CDC and that the country is in a different place than where the administration is in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/psaki-cries-lgbtq-trans-kids\/\">Psaki<\/a> denied that the videos represented the general views of the American on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/18\/joe-biden-administration-public-transportation-masking-order-not-in-effect\/\">masking<\/a> while on board planes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019ve seen those videos. Anecdotes are not data, right?\u201d she said. \u201cAnd certainly, that does tell a part of the story. But we don\u2019t make these decisions based on politics or based on the political whims on a plane or even in a poll.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/michigan-public-school-threatened-maskless-parents-with-criminal-trespassing-charges\/\">(RELATED: Michigan Public School Threatened Maskless Parents With Criminal Trespassing Charges)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Celebration breaks out on a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JetBlue?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JetBlue<\/a> flight.<\/p>\n<p>The mask mandate has been lifted. \ud83e\udd73 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZVSb7fhaDk\">pic.twitter.com\/ZVSb7fhaDk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Langer (@jacklanger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacklanger\/status\/1516226069514305546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBut I would note in polls, and data, lengthier data, there are still a lot of people in this country who still want to have masks in place,\u201d Psaki continued. \u201cEither they have immunocompromised relatives, they have kids under five, whatever it may be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/18\/public-transportation-mask-mandate-covid-coronavirus-overturned-lawsuit\/\">struck down<\/a> the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) mask mandate for public transportation Monday. Flight attendants and passengers ripped off their masks and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacklanger\/status\/1516226069514305546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1516226069514305546%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2022%2F04%2F19%2Fflight-attendants-celebrate-mask-mandate-ending-viral-video%2F\">cheered<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/flight-attendants-celebrate-mask-mandate-ending-viral-video\/\">celebration<\/a> in numerous videos shared online.<\/p>\n<p>A March Axios poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/axios-ipsos-poll-covid-masks-spirits-rise-604dcb7e-cd97-4a36-b81e-25da149bb249.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a> 64% of Americans favored an end to all COVID-19 restrictions at the local, state and federal level. It surveyed 957 adults between March 11-14 with a 3.5% margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki downplayed Americans\u2019 enthusiasm for the end of the federal mask mandate during a Tuesday press conference.\u201cYou saw a lot of Americans \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":1447437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}