{"id":872159,"date":"2021-10-12T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=872159"},"modified":"2021-10-12T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:44:17","slug":"spotted-illinois-dem-sean-casten-at-chicago-airport-without-a-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spotted-illinois-dem-sean-casten-at-chicago-airport-without-a-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOTTED: Illinois Dem Sean Casten at Chicago Airport WITHOUT A MASK"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fspotted-illinois-dem-sean-casten-at-chicago-airport-without-a-mask%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=872159&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--><p>A Democratic congressman best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/illinois-dem-trump-osama-bin-laden-tremendous-amount-common\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comparing<\/a> former president Donald Trump to 9\/11 architect Osama bin Laden was spotted <em>without a protective face mask<\/em> at one of the busiest airports in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Photos obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> show Rep. Sean Casten (D., Ill.) chatting with a masked companion at O&#8217;Hare International Airport in Chicago. In the photos, which were taken early Tuesday morning, the maskless congressman appears to be holding a drink-like object, presumably in an effort to evade the Centers for Disease Control mandate for transportation hubs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Masks are required at O&#8217;Hare,&#8221; the airport states on its website. It links to the CDC page explaining the mandate, which &#8220;require[s] people to wear masks&#8221; indoors unless &#8220;eating, drinking, or taking medication for brief periods of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An airport source told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;the amount of time Casten spent without a mask far exceeded the &#8220;brief period&#8221; allowed under CDC guidelines.&nbsp;Either way, scientific experts have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/travel\/tips\/flights-eat-drink-vaccine-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a>&nbsp;that taking your mask off at any point while traveling is potentially dangerous, even for vaccinated individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please don&#8217;t ignore science,&#8221; Casten has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanCasten\/status\/1312199704864677890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">urged<\/a> his social media followers. &#8220;Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay safe.&#8221; Wearing a mask, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanCasten\/status\/1438578079073439746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> last month, was not only &#8220;the right thing to do scientifically,&#8221; but also &#8220;the most responsible thing to do&#8221; in terms of protecting others.<\/p>\n<p>Casten is merely the latest Democrat to reject science and put lives at risk by declining to cover his face in a public indoor setting. In August, for example, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, attended a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/maloney-french-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maskless<\/a> wedding at an estate in France and was photographed without a mask at an indoor art studio in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) was a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/democrats-maskless-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maskless<\/a> guest at Interior Secretary Deb Haaland&#8217;s wedding in New Mexico. The indoor gathering was almost certainly in violation of state masking guidelines. In September, senior Biden administration official Samantha Power was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/samantha-power-mask-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spotted<\/a>&nbsp;maskless on an Amtrak train in blatant violation of federal law, which &#8220;requires all customers and employees to wear a mask at all times while onboard trains and in stations, regardless of vaccination status or state or local laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the celebrity activist and part-time member of Congress, was photographed walking the halls of Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/busted-habitual-parking-violator-aoc-shuns-pelosis-mask-mandate-puts-lives-at-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">without a mask<\/a> over the summer. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), another member of the so-called Squad, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/caught-on-video-rashida-tlaib-admits-she-only-wears-mask-for-cameras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> that she only wears a mask when her political opponents are watching.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1527930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/caster-2.jpg\" alt width=\"736\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/caster-2.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/caster-2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/caster-2-729x491.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic congressman best known for comparing former president Donald Trump to 9\/11 architect Osama bin Laden was spotted without a protective face mask at one of the busiest airports &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872159","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\/872159","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}