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When I was last traveling, the person in front of me asked TSA agent "Why do we have to take our shoes off?" He replied, "Have you heard of the shoe bomber?"

When I think about it, that's a crazy policy to have since it only happened once (and it didn't even work).

If we follow that sort of logic we should be wearing masks every time we fly. It's just a bizarre policy.



> If we follow that sort of logic we should be wearing masks every time we fly.

We do wear masks every time we fly nowadays. Or maybe that was your point?


Sorry. Forever. We had an incident once, and we now have to follow guidelines to that incident forever. Wearing masks now is appropriate.




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