Democrat Sen. Ed Markey blocked a Senate bill to ban mask mandates nationwide.

GALLAGHER: You think I want to get on another airplane and wear a mask? What do you do? What if you go to what if you have to go to work on the bus and the and the local transit authority makes you wear a mask to get on the bus? What are you going to do when you go to work and your office says you got to wear a mask to walk into the building?
I don’t know why I keep having this flashback to this screaming match I got into with somebody at my office in Florida when somebody said, You got to wear a mask to walk, you know, 30 steps from your car to you through the empty building into your empty studio. I said, This is insane. You you better do it. A rock would allow you in the building. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed at the time, and the consensus? Not that I’m any big deal. I’m not trying to brag here, but the consensus was if Mike doesn’t wear one, want to wear a mask? We’re not going to wear him. Wear a mask. But see, I’m in an unusual position. I’m in an unusual place. I’m fortunate and privileged to be in a position where I kind of get to do that. Although I suppose if my company really wanted to be hardcore about it, they could have said, Mike, you ought to lose your job over this. Okay. But nice knowing you and listen to the way the Democrats brag about it. Listen to the way the Democrats are. So they look, they want these mask mandates so badly. This was something called the Freedom to Breathe Act, which would have prohibited any federal mask mandate from being imposed on an airplane, a public transit system or school. J.D. Vance introduced it on Wednesday. Democrat Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts intervened and he shut it down. Here he was. This is, I believe, from the floor of the Senate, if I’m not mistaken. But this is audio and video from C-SPAN, where Ed Markey proudly shut down the Freedom to Breathe Act.
MARKEY: It would silence and hamstring public health experts who have guided our nation out of the darkest days of a pandemic that has killed 1,139,000 people in our country in three years.

GALLAGHER: But where’s your mask, dummy? Why are you standing there without your mask on since you worship at the altar of the mask? Incidentally, if you’re watching that video clip on Salem News Channel, there’s some dingbat sitting behind him with a mask on. Did you see that? I don’t know who she is. She’s got a nice big black mask on. Look at me. I got my mask on. I’m not going to give or get COVID. I mean, these people are just clowns. I saw one this morning driving into work on a bike, pedaling with all the prerequisite bike stuff that bicyclists, you know, the spandex and the helmet and everything and the and the the you know, Tour de France get up Guy had as he was ready to go and he had his mask on. Nothing’s going to happen to him. He ain’t going to get COVID. He’s got his mask on while pedaling down the West Side Highway in New York City outside with nobody around. Man’s wearing a mask, so I don’t know. I mean, I hate all these flashbacks. I was talking to my producer, Derek, about it earlier and he said, you know, you flashback to all the COVID memes. One one of the memes that Derek loved said, I’m more afraid of a Democrat in the White House than I am COVID. I’d second that. But what do we do? Where do we go? I’m serious. I want to ask you an honest to gosh question. What are you going to do if your company, if your local transit system, if your kid’s school tries to impose a mask mandate? Let’s flood our body weight loss and nutrition phone lines with your phone calls. 800 655. Mike, this is Friday, this hour. I want I want packed lunch. It’s always a bit of a challenge this time on Friday every week to get people revved up and back into the swing of things. So let’s go. I just want you to give me your pragmatic answer. What do you do if you’re confronted with a mask mandate?