The ruling comes less than a week after the CDC extended the mask order.
. Mizell’s ruling claims that the CDC categorized masks as “sanitation” in order to pass the transportation order via the Public Health Services Act of 1944, but that masks do not fall under “sanitation.“Wearing a mask cleans nothing,” the judge wrote in the ruling. “At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither ‘sanitizes’ the person wearing the mask nor ‘sanitizes’ the conveyance.”
The ruling also includes testimony by two individuals, Ana Carolina Daza and Sarah Pope, who claim wearing masks on planes worsened their anxiety and caused panic attacks.that the Justice Department could appeal, allowing the CDC to continue to enforce the order. The CDC has not released a comment about the ruling as of writing thisPublic transit and planes are currently the last places where masking has still been enforced across the U.S.
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