Yes, you should still wear a mask on the plane

[Bloomberg]( Follow Us [Get the newsletter]( This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a packed flight of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. [Sign up here](. Today’s Agenda - Airlines have every right to [make passengers still wear masks](. - The unbearable lightness of being a [bipartisan infrastructure plan](. - Texas’ winter [freeze is California’s summer pain](. - [Victoria’s Secret needs a new look](. Don’t be that guy. Masked Transit Pre-pandemic, a not-uncommon sight on the New York City subway was the occasional tourist wearing a face mask as if they’d just prepped for surgery and wandered through the wrong door. That’s odd, you’d think, as you sneezed into your hand and grabbed the subway pole before eating a slice of pizza a Brooklyn man had himself just sneezed on. Why is that person wearing a mask? Now, one Covid pandemic later, you know the answer. Some of us will never ride the subway unmasked again. But even after everything we’ve been through, there are still many Americans who believe masks impinge on their freedom and/or respiratory system and will straight-up [trash]( this Walmart if you think otherwise. And now that the vaccinated can roam maskless in many places, anti-maskers have even more reason to get upset when asked to cover up their laughing gear. [One place where this still happens a lot is airplanes](, writes Brooke Sutherland. People are cramming onto planes more and more in a desperate quest for new scenery. But not all of them are vaccinated, and a deadly variant is spreading. And even though planes have great ventilation, it can’t overcome the industrial-grade misting power of your seatmate’s face holes. So airlines are asking people to stay masked up. And this makes some people very mad: This behavior isn’t helping anything, folks — not the airlines, not the crew, not your fellow passengers, not the economy. And it certainly won’t help you to be [banned]( from American Airlines for life (as tempting as that may sound). So be a sport and wear a mask on the plane, ya [turkey](. And subscribe to Brooke’s [newsletter](. And read the [whole thing](. Sponsored Content The power of PayPal online, now in person. PayPal gives your business a way to accept touch-free, in-person payments. Generate your QR code from the app, then display it on your device or print it out. No new equipment required. [Download the app.]( Customer must have PayPal account and app to pay. PayPal Another Successful Infrastructure Week Earlier this week, this newsletter suggested you [squash]( your silly dreams about a big infrastructure plan getting through Congress. Then yesterday came news President Joe Biden and some senators had come up with a bipartisan infrastructure plan that, if not “big,” was at least “existent.” Now, sadly, even that plan seems to be [wobbling]( on the edge of extinction. But Jonathan Bernstein invites us to [admire the difficulty of building such a plan in a governance system]( with “Finnegan’s Wake” levels of pointless complexity. As of this morning, he was optimistic the Rube Goldberg device necessary to get some decent infrastructure in this country would actually work. But if one [basketball]( falls the wrong way, the whole thing goes bust.  Further Politics Reading: - [Black voters helped Eric Adams become New York’s likely next mayor]( over more progressive choices. — Robert George - The Supreme Court just found a way to make both [Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer mad](. — Noah Feldman Telltale Charts Speaking of Rube Goldberg devices, everything in our energy system is connected, even when it thinks it isn’t. Texas, for example, prides itself on its independence from the rest of the grid, which is partly why its people proudly froze this winter. But [that debacle also hurt natural-gas production, which hit gas supplies in California](, writes Liam Denning, making it harder for that state to back up its parched hydroelectric power this summer. We’re all in this together. Victoria’s Secret [begins new life as a stand-alone company with a musty image](, writes Andrea Felsted. It’s trying on a more-inclusive, less-Epstein-y look, but consumers now have many other options. Further Reading Bitmain’s [mining-rig retreat won’t affect Bitcoin’s price]( or supply. It will just lower competition for a while. — Tim Culpan [Bubble-tea purveyors are trying to fill the Chinese beverage niche]( where Luckin failed. It won’t be easy. — Shuli Ren There’s no reason for [Boris Johnson to reward Vladimir Putin’s bad behavior]( with a summit. — Therese Raphael How to [help your cash-strapped kids and grandkids buy a house](. — Alexis Leondis ICYMI Derek [Chauvin was sentenced]( for George Floyd’s murder. Covid is [back on cruise ships](. [Venice is fighting overtourism](. Kickers The [ground is always moving beneath you](. (h/t Ellen Kominers) Area [sea lion crashes interview]( about plague of sea lions. “Dragon Man” [may be humanity’s closest relative](. (h/t Scott Kominers for the past two kickers) A [coronavirus plagued humanity for generations]( 20,000 years ago. [Conan O’Brien says goodbye]( (again). Notes: Please send snail art and complaints to Mark Gongloff at mgongloff1@bloomberg.net. [Sign up here]( and follow us on [Twitter]( and [Facebook](. Like Bloomberg Opinion Today? [Subscribe to Bloomberg All Access and get much, much more](. You’ll receive our unmatched global news coverage and two in-depth daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close. Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can’t find anywhere else. [Learn more](. 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