Brooke Tansley, 43, was mid-flight with her two little kids when the plane’s pilot announced on the intercom he had “exciting news.” With notable enthusiasm, the pilot announced the Transportation Security Administration had ended its mask mandate and travelers could take off their masks, she said.
But Tansley, traveling with two children under 5 who can’t be vaccinated against COVID-19 to visit a colleague with a rare autoimmune disorder, didn’t share the pilot’s eagerness to unmask.
