with covid, whether it might be necessary to keep masks in place for a longer period of time. they want to get a handle on this before they go ahead with lifting the mask mandate, but this comes as the government is getting increased pressure from industry to lift this mandate, with airlines for america, which is a lobby group that represents the big three airlines here in the u.s. calling today for not only the mask mandate to be lifted but also that pretesting requirement if you re overseas and you want to fly to the u.s., you re supposed to get a negative covid test within 24 hours. the industry wants that to be lifted and delta s ceo was on television today to say it s time for those mask to come off. you re reading my mind. first of all, it s great reporting that you re scooping here on msnbc, not just travelers getting on planes but