Posted on 08/23/2020 9:46:14 PM PDT by ebb tide
August 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A New York mother says she and her six kids were treated in an “inhumane” way after being tossed from a JetBlue flight because her two-year-old child kept pulling her mask off.
“She was pulling it off, she had a pacifier in her mouth and they [flight attendants] saw it happening,” Chaya Bruck was reported by Fox News as saying about the incident, which took place on August 19 in Orlando, Florida.
The incident left the mother and kids stranded in a Florida airport for more than five hours.
Bruck said she struggled to have her two-year-old child keep a mask on before the plane departed the gate. This resulted in flight attendants telling her that unless her child kept the mask on, she would be kicked off the flight along with everyone else.
“The way they treated me and went about it is inhumane,” said Bruck in the Fox News report, adding that she was “targeted."
“My kids started crying. They got scared. They didn’t know what was going on. It was very traumatizing,”
Bruck says she and her husband are looking into suing JetBlue because of the incident.
A video of the event posted on Fox News shows a clip of the ordeal.
In the background, voices can be heard by some passengers who appear to be defending Bruck, with one voice clearly saying, “She’s two years old, she’s two years old, it’s on your website.” Another voice also says, “Then why is it on your website?”
The video also shows everyone disembarking the plane, and in the background disgruntled passengers can be heard voicing their displeasure about the situation.
Bruck alleges in the Fox News report that before boarding the plane, she heard on the speaker at the gate that “small children” did not have to wear a face mask if they could not keep it on.
On May 4, the New York–based airline was the first U.S. carrier to mandate that its passengers wear face coverings while boarding, in-flight, and deboarding.
JetBlue’s president, Joanna Geraghty Wearing, said at the time that “a face covering isn’t about protecting yourself; it’s about protecting those around you.”
Bruck’s husband alleges that the airline changed the wording of its mask policy for kids shortly after the incident. A screen shot taken by the Bruck family and posted in the Fox News report shows the wording, “Children who are not able to maintain a face covering are exempt from the requirement.”
Bruck claims that JetBlue later changed its face covering policy to what it currently says on its website shortly after the incident to read, “All travelers 2 years and older must wear a face covering over their nose and mouth throughout their journey, including during check-in, boarding, while in flight and deplaning.”
A spokesman for the airline said in the Fox News report that the face covering policy was last updated on August 10 and is consistent with CDC guidelines, which state that anyone over the age of two should wear a mask.
However, a Seattle Times report says JetBlue updated its mask policy just 44 minutes after Bruck’s flight was to have taken off.
The same report also says the incident started on Bruck’s trip to Orlando over a week ago, when she first argued with a flight attendant about masking her two-year-old. According to the Seattle Times report, Bruck said that “the minute” the flight attendant saw her, “he recognized me.”
“I heard him tell the other stewardesses about me.”
Bruck was quoted as saying in the Fox News report that she thinks it’s “not feasible for a child who is 2 years old to wear a mask,” adding that she does not think “under 4 is even possible to force a child to wear a mask, and especially if they have a pacifier in their mouth.”
“A 2-year-old child does not have the logic as an older kid and doesn’t understand the consequences of not wearing the mask,” she was quoted as saying to Fox News.
“I’m not a confrontational person, I didn’t want any trouble, I just wanted to get home with my six kids after a family vacation.”
Bruck said JetBlue did not help her book another flight, and they made it home on a United Airlines flight later in the day.
This is not the first reported incident involving people being kicked off planes due to not wearing a mask.
A report from last week says a Texas woman and her family were kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight because their 3-year-old, who has autism, refused to wear a mask.
Steve Jalsevac, LifeSiteNews co-founder and managing director, said in a recent blog post that the increase in mandatory masking is driven not by science, but by fear and is a change from what “health experts” were saying earlier on.
“There are now increasing statements that broad mask mandates definitely save many lives. That is a complete flip from what we were told up to a few weeks ago that masks are not helpful,” wrote Jalsevac.
Dr. Dan Erickson, who owns Accelerated Urgent Care and who spoke at the “White Coat Summit,” whose press conference was banned from social media, said in a Breitbart report that “I’m watching people in their Prius by themselves driving with a mask on. There’s no sense to it.”
“It’s fear,” he added.
A Wisconsin state agency recently required that employees wear masks during at-home Zoom meetings to “visually remind folks that masking is an important part of navigating the business of natural resources during this tumultuous time.”
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The hijab crowd are pleased.
Its not about the virus its about control
Both my son and daughter in law are Pediatricians. They both say it is dangerous for children under 3 to wear anything over their nose and mouth for anything over a few minutes. They say that their respiratory system is not developed enough to handle it. They also say that a child at that age does not have the lung capacity needed to get around the amount of CO2 retained in the mask.
This is why you should carry a roll of duct tape with you to deal with unruly children. /s
Mask Nazis. I hate Mask Nazis.
All part of the plan to destroy the airlines. Soon there will be family pod seating on airlines.
Only an adult making a cruel sarcastic comment like that ought to get duct tape placed over his lips. (not /s)
my concnerns are before the flight —
(1) WHY was she traveling?
(2) RENT a van and drive back - then NO ON has to wear a mask inside the vehicle - if you have to travel.
Geez people — think this through — everyone is in paranoid mode right now over COVID - but no riots - tells you about the state of mind society is in right now.
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with your stupidity and fear!
Masks = Killing the immune system
‘I am afraid we are beyond the point of no return.’
people are poised to elect a president who promises a national mask mandate; from what I’ve seen, the suburban voters, particularly females, will love this...
‘...make those idiots to pay a high price for their stupidity.’
rigid adherence to covid tyranny will not land anyone in hot water; only those who speak out for sanity will feel the lash of authority...
‘We soon will be ordered to photoshop a mask on all of our old photos from kindergarten and up...’
pretty soon we will be required to give birth to masked babies...
The purpose of the mask is to control. How dare the baby not submit to control of the State?
You vill submit!
Told my wife this would happen last March.
the point where we became responsible for not offending other people is also the point where we became responsible for not breathing the same air as other people.
I wonder if many women (and men) are experiencing a level of fear that never existed before...
Yeah, it’s stupid, but I think the mask requirement on planes has more to do with the airline industry’s mortal fear of being shut down by our masters if there is an outbreak traced to planes.
No, that's for the people who won't mind their own business and quit whining about those who don't wear the masks...
Cashier at the store was wearing a mask with the words, 'this mask is as useless as our governor'...Said she had only one negative complain all day...
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