you see pattern of it, you have to ask, is it industries to blame or biden administration, are your policies causing this economy not to work across the board? carley: you have faa snapping back, they wrote a letter of their own saying after receiving 54 billion in pandemic relief to save the airline from bankruptcy, american people deserve to have expectations met. one thing that did happen during the pandemic, a lot of pilots retired early because they didn t want to get vaccinated. who wanted to work in the industry, you have mask restrictions and vaccination requirements, airlines are terrible place to be during covid, everybody angry and upset. it wasn ts any fun, pilots
that, according to the health and human services secretary who said in a press conference, ultimately, it will be up to the justice department to decide how to move forward with all this. but it only adds to the confusion that passengers have over the end of the transportation mask mandate. remember, it was already supposed to end two weeks from now on may 3rd. jake? at reagan national airport for us, thank you. joining us in studio to help break this down and what it mean for health, dean of the school of medicine in texas. i m guessing you think that it is the wrong decision by the judge and the wrong decision by the biden administration to not appeal it. you tell me. it was inevitable, that eventually we have to lift mask restrictions. we can t go on like this forever. the problem is not now. the ba.2 subvariant is accelerating and we re seeing a big rise in cases, in massachusetts, vermont, new york, and hospitalizations are going up as well. there has been a 100% increase in v
it could make a difference. i guess i ask because one of the things i hear, look, i m vaccinated. i m boosted. if they re over 60, maybe i m double boosted. i ve been safe the whole time. i want to live my life. the risk to me is very, very low. if people who are not vaccinated want to continue being unhealthy, i don t care if they have a mask on or not. that s an argument i hear. i m not saying i support it. do you know what i m saying in. we don t have to wear masks in perm toot. it s only a if you more weeks. the judge must have known that the transportation department, the white house was already moving. in direction to loosen mask restrictions. so from my perspective, this is nothing more than a political stunl coming out of florida. and it has two problems. one, it puts people at risk for ba.2 tfrl other thing is i don t want to set a precedent where some random federal judge in florida is overriding decisions from the centers for disease
northeast where a 30-point edge for democrats in november has dropped to 20 points last month. your thoughts on that, karl. he s absolutely right. if you re a parent, you re deeply concerned about your child getting a quality education. whether it was the mask restrictions or cultural restrictions in secondary education like we saw in virginia, they re working against the democrats. i was on debates last week with two prominent democrats last week. they said this is a real problem for democrats and attacked the hard left insisting on heavy mandates and very liberal approaches to education. martha: we see that, how enthusiastic are you in the voting. this is young voters. this is a big group for biden and the suburban moms of young kids. the numbers are on the screen there. yeah. that s a huge issue.
if you are a parent you are deeply concerned about your child getting a quality education and whether it was the mask restrictions or some of these sort of cultural issues that are in elementary and secondary education like we saw in virginia, these things are working against the democrats. i think the big issues going into the midterms are education, affordability, and security and all those are in the direction against democrats. they are not dealing with so many parents are dealing with on a day-to-day basis. i think it shows in some of their action and inaction. so i think it could be a big year. bret: closing in on the midterms. back with the panel. brit, what are your thoughts. seems to be several big inflation is the biggest one. republican race in virginia won by glenn youngkin who campaigned heavily on this issue of the schools and what s being taught in them and what should be taught and what should not is a sign of that race was a sign of how powerful that issue ca