Former NBA basketball star turned North Korean “diplomat” Dennis Rodman was met by police after refusing on four occasions to wear his mask aboard a JetBlue flight to Florida in Mint Class, but walked away without being cited.
Dennis Rodman Mask Incident On JetBlue
Rodman, whose long career in the NBA included stints for the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, has more access to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un than any U.S. diplomat after forming a “bromance” over basketball.
But his trip on JetBlue from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale was not a diplomatic mission. Flying in JetBlue’s spacious Mint business class, Rodman apparently refused to keep his mask on despite flight attendants requesting he do so on four different occasions.
Flight attendants would approach Rodman and tell him to wear his mask over his nose and mouth. Rodman would then initially comply, But moments later after the flight attendants walked away, Rodman would pull the mask down.
Rodman, who was famous for flopping on the basketball court, claimed that he had to lower his mask because he had trouble breathing (He and Kim love to smoke cigars together and Rodman is often seen pictured with a smoking product).
Upon arrival in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Sheriffs met the flight and interviewed Rodman. However, they let him go without citing him after he was cooperative.
CONCLUSION
As long as the federal mask mandate remains in effect, JetBlue should ban Rodman. I’m not sure there needs to be anything else done, but repeat again that your decision to fly is a voluntary choice. As long as an airline mandates masks, if you choose to fly on that carrier, you are agreeing to wear a mask.
If he doesn’t want to wear a mask, perhaps Rodman should get on a plane back to North Korea, where there has not been a single COVID-19 case…according to authorities…
image: CNN
He lowered his mask because he had trouble breathing, yet you think he should be banned from flying? And you think it’s ok for Maxine Waters to remove her mask for the purpose of reading a newspaper? Crikey.
I think Maxine should be banned too if she refused to wear a mask. Where did I say it was “okay” for her to remove her mask to read a paper?
Mask mandates should be banned. The Harris-Biden administration with Joe Biden as President has been Following the Science, which anyone with any understanding of actual science knows is completely against what the science shows. Walensky (among others) needs to be fired. Her willful misinformation of the public is criminal. How badly must she be lying if the Atlantic is willing to call her out on masks?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/
For Ms. Waters: “I’m certainly not prepared to assert this happened based upon a single undated photo and anonymous account from another passenger.”
We don’t even have a photo of Rodman, yet you feel he should be banned based on anonymous reports from his flight? Apparently not even the police were convinced he did something wrong.
I’m surprised at you. With the Maxine Waters story, you had an anonymous passenger make the allegation without even mentioning the flight date. Only a cropped photo was provided where you cannot even see if any other passenger is wearing a mask. The photo could have been several years old. Because of that, I was not willing to jump to a conclusion that this happened–but clearly said Waters should be condemned if it did happen. The Rodman story is not questioned. The Broward County police issued a statement confirming the incident.
Try Palmolive dishwashing liquid, it softens hands while you do dishes.
That was exactly my reaction… he had trouble breathing and then the author thinks he should be banned from flying because he had trouble breathing. Seems like a special place in hell for people that don’t care if others can breathe…
LOL. “Trouble breathing” … you really don’t know Dennis Rodman.
Come on Lauren- Are you really that naive or is it that you just can’t see reality. Rodman can’t breath? Really? Yet he is always smoking. The fact is that the mask mandate is a law. If you can’t comply with that law than you don’t fly commercial. End of story. My right to not be potentially exposed trumps his right to be on a commercial plane. Why is that so hard to understand? Because you don’t agree with the mask mandate so you make up your own rules
If the old crone can, why can’t Rodman?
I don’t get it. Who said that Maxine could go without a mask? Not me. I merely questioned whether that was a recent photo. I’m still skeptical.
I never said you said. However, from the article on Maxine there was no mention of her putting the mask back or being met by a sheriff when she landed in LA. She thinks she is above the law.
According to the “witness” onboard, she did put it back on when instructed to by a flight attendant.
Mask mandates should be banned. Anyone who advocates for mask mandates should also be banned permanently from all airlines and public functions (restaurants, sporting events, voting), this includes bloggers. Banning is fun, right?
We live in a society of rules in which we must live with one another. When everyone simply does what they want…chaos results. We are responsible the leaders we elect. If you don’t like them, throw them out of office.
Who elected Fauci and Walensky? And was Biden actually elected? You do realize virtually all media companies and the journalist class were acting as the propaganda arm of the DNC in the 2020 election. Only about 44,000 votes separated Trump and Biden in the crucial swing states. State election regulations were flouted by Democrat-controlled executives and courts. Are you old enough to remember the mostly peaceful “not my President” protests in 2016?
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/11/not-my-president-thousands-march-in-protest/507248/
Trump beat HRC by an even smaller margin in 2016 and lost the popular vote. That doesn’t mean Trump was an illegitimate president. He wasn’t.
Biden won this election. The GOP vote recount in AZ resulted in a net gain for Biden. Same in GA.
I was 100% against counting late votes and what the PA Supreme Court did to make it easier to vote. But even that would not have changed the outcome of the election.
Had Trump simply performed through the campaign as he did in his final debate with Biden, he would have easily won.
Now Biden is in charge. And he appointed Fauci and Walensky. Don’t like it? Throw him out in 2024. Throw out the Democratic majority in Congress in 2022. There are remedies beyond just ignoring mandates you personally disagree with.
Do you think mandates that are plainly based on lies should be obeyed? What if there were a mandate that said the world was flat and tilting wildly due to some sort of anthropogenic cause and we all had to wear cleats to keep from sliding off the edge of the earth? That is about as reasonable as “The Science” Fauci and Walensky are using to justify their recommendations to the Harris-Biden administration with Joe Biden as President. Courts are too deferential to the executive.
Why wait for 2024? After regaining control of Congress in 2023 Harris can be impeached and convicted and no replacement approved, then Biden can be impeached 3 times with conviction on the last impeachment and the Republican Speaker of the House takes the Presidency and the Democrats are taken out like a can of ripe garbage.
@AlohaDave I want to believe that you and I could actually drink a beer and laugh at things together. But comments like yours truly scare me. C’mon man, chill a bit, make some money, have some fun. There is no conspiracy against you. I promise. We are a nation of many, some are far left, some are far right…but most are in the middle. Find that middle and we have a great country again.
LOL> The cultist refuses to mention how Fox News is the propganda arm of the RNC. But then those in cults find it hard to realise they are in one.
This is how you do critical thinking? God help America!
If JetBlue has allowed this and not banned him themselves, that’s on them.
Perhaps calling them out on their inability to enforce the rules would be better directed.
Well, I respect JetBlue for not diverting. Stupid reason for diverting. Just ban the non-compliant.
Agree with Mike.
As long as there are no consequences, this bs will keep happening. Ban him and arrest him. Admittedly a small fine won’t affect Rodman much, but could hurt others quite a bit.
End the insanity. End the virus theatre.
That’s right! I saw a convoy of cars today with banners reading “the real virus is the CCP”
There’s an excellent video on youtube in which an Irish medic demonstrates, using a pulse oximeter that even wearing ten maskes at once does not impair breathing.
No excuses, prosecute them all.
Present conclusive evidence that the mask mandate works and you won’t be first against the wall when the deplorables rise up to defend their freedumb. Here is evidence that masks don’t work as you think they do. In one RCT, cloth mask wearers were infected with influenza-like illness at three times the rate of the unmasked. I’ve been looking into mask efficacy since long before the Wuhan flu ever reared its ugly head. Evidence in support of masks was always fuzzy. But prosecute those deplorables, amirite?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8966883/Masks-DONT-stop-spread-Covid-experts-criticise-troubling-lack-evidence.html
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
https://www.argmin.net/2021/09/13/effect-size/
http://www.argmin.net/2021/11/23/mask-rct-revisited/
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01742-6/fulltext
Doesn’t matter if it works or not. I’m immediately ready to dump the mask mandate. I hate wearing masks and think the marginal benefit they provide is not worth the annoyance. But to say that the government we elect does not have the authority to mandate masks in certain public settings is simply not commensurate with current Constitutional jurisprudence.
I am of the opinion that the government does not have the authority to do most of what it does. Where do you draw the line in complying with the leviathan? The whole charade of masks is only further proof of the illegitimacy of the state.
Ok Matthew,
Then how about we all obey the mask mandate as strictly as US government adheres to immigration law? I can certainly live with that..
@cargocult- So…. let’s just pick you apart here. Mandates based on a lie? Exactly which lie is that? Because you don’t seem to be looking at the totality of data and studies nor actually know what you’re talking about
Did you actually read the links you posted? Or understand what these studies actually say? Did you notice most are published a year or more ago…
– The lancet and argmin links are just editorials criticizing large trials demonstrating that masks ARE effective.
– The cebm link is a call for additional trials
– The BMJ link is a study demonstrating that cloth masks don’t provide as much protection as surgical masks- it doesn’t actually compare cloth masking to NO masking
– The daily mail is a lay press news article whose headline doesn’t actually match the study results they describe in the first sentence… it even goes on to describe a study suggesting surgical masks are similar in preventing covid in the wearer as N95 (although I can show you other data saying N95 are superior)- I will give you it does reference the Dutch study failing to show a decrease in covid risk to the wearer
It should be noted that each reference you use to purport mask ineffectiveness looks at the effect on the WEARER- that is their personal risk of covid infection… which is highest in cloth masks, then better with surgical, and best with N95 respirators (especially when used correctly)
So – If your argument is “Masks don’t prevent 100% of infections in the people who wear them”- Um.. yes, but that’s not the point anyway. And a selfish perspective in a public health mindset. If the question is “do masks decrease Covid spread?” that’s a more relevant question for a mask mandate.
So did you show anything saying masks don’t work as source control? no- not at all. The alternate question is whether masks prevent spread of Covid by the wearer- I notice your references are conspicuously silent on this.
There’s plenty of observational, cross- sectional, and ” real world data” showing that in places where masks are used, covid spread decreases.
My favorite one is from the State of Missouri- where the governor commissioned a study to see if mask mandates are effective- and found they were- and then buried the study because he didn’t like the results :
https://theweek.com/coronavirus/1007693/missouri-commissioned-then-buried-a-report-that-found-mask-mandates-save-lives
As for links to ACTUAL studies demonstrating masks are effective are decreasing community spread, try familiarizing yourself with some of the actual studies and then tell us why they all are somehow invalid : (here’s a sampling):
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Cloth Masks May Prevent Transmission of COVID-19: An Evidence-Based, Risk-Based Approach. Clase CM, et al . Ann Intern Med. 2020;173(6):489. Epub 2020 May 22.
Reduction of secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in households by face mask use, disinfection and social distancing: a cohort study in Beijing, China. Wang Y, et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2020;5(5)
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks. Leung NHL, et al. Nat Med. 2020;26(5):676. Epub 2020 Apr 3.
Efficacy of face mask in preventing respiratory virus transmission: A systematic review and meta-analysis. AU Liang Met al Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020;36:101751. Epub 2020 May 28.
Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Chu DK, et al. Lancet. 2020;395(10242):1973. Epub 2020 Jun 1.
Association Between Universal Masking in a Health Care System and SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Among Health Care Workers. AU Wang X, et al. JAMA. 2020;324(7):703.
Masks and Face Coverings for the Lay Public : A Narrative Update. AU Czypionka T, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2021;174(4):511. Epub 2020 Dec 29.
Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study. Rader B, et al. Lancet Digit Health. 2021;3(3):e148. Epub 2021 Jan 19.
Absence of Apparent Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Two Stylists After Exposure at a Hair Salon with a Universal Face Covering Policy – Springfield, Missouri, May 2020. Hendrix MJ, et l. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020;69(28):930. Epub 2020 Jul 17.
Effectiveness of public health measures in reducing the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis. AU Talic S, et al. BMJ. 2021;375:e068302. Epub 2021 Nov 17.
Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study. Rader B, et al. Lancet Digit Health. 2021;3(3):e148. Epub 2021 Jan 19.
Trends in County-Level COVID-19 Incidence in Counties With and Without a Mask Mandate – Kansas, June 1-August 23, 2020. Van Dyke ME, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020;69(47):1777. Epub 2020 Nov 27.
Decline in COVID-19 Hospitalization Growth Rates Associated with Statewide Mask Mandates – 10 States, March-October 2020. AU Joo H, Miller GF, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021;70(6):212. Epub 2021 Feb 12.
Association of State-Issued Mask Mandates and Allowing On-Premises Restaurant Dining with County-Level COVID-19 Case and Death Growth Rates – United States, March 1-December 31, 2020. AU Guy GP Jr, et al MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021;70(10):350. Epub 2021 Mar 12.
Get a LIFE, who had time to write this???
Dont bother sharing facts with @cargocult. he only believes what his political masters tell him
The flight should have diverted to Pyongyang.
You know how far we’ve sunk as a country when Rodman is one of the SANE people.
Make him Secretary of State. He did far more for peace on the Korean Peninsula than the useless State Department did in 65 years.
The State Department does not want to actually SOLVE our problems. They want to merely manage them. If they solve them, they can kiss their 6 figure government salaries goodbye
Poor Rodman. This was his first time he had been on a plane since he flew to National on 5 Jan 2021, and he gets accosted for just enjoying his freedom.
That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!
“He’s a Trump supporter. BAN HIM!!!”
but he’s black
“ohhhhhh”
NBA stars, movie stars, and political stars are exempt from rules we non stars must obey.
Hope he stays quiet, when he tests positive. No respect for others.
Let’s enforce immigration laws as hard as people want to enforce these useless mask mandates.
I liked Rodman when he was a member of the “Bad Boys” Pistons championship teams years ago.
This is no surprise re: Rodman. But I had no idea you had so many esteemed public health experts, or doctors, or nurses, who are experts in what works, or doesn’t work, to control an airborne virus. Travel is an option. So put the tray table up, secure the seatbelt, don’t smoke, and put your mask on.
Wow, it’s a pack of trolls with kindergarten level intellect attacking you over being sensible. Fun times for sure.
This should be titled, “How Rodman became Relevant Again. For a Minute.”
Here we are, living with restrictions placed on us by worthless politicians, no end in sight, tearing each other apart, while the bastards who unleashed this on us, the Chinese communist party, are never mentioned and go untouched.