If you care about your health, do not fly Lufthansa. You might be booted from the plane for wearing a mask. And if you have friends or family who are immunocompromised, such as being on chemo, tell them to avoid Lufthansa and boycott Lufthansa in solidarity.

The incident below in some ways resembles the forced removal of an elderly dentist, Dr. Dao, from a United flight years back, in which Dr. Dao was knocked out and had his jaw broken. While there was no violence here, the nature of rule-breaking was similar, and in some ways worse. In Dr. Doa’s case, he was merely arbitrarily told to get off the plane after he had taken his seat and tried to demur. Here, the crew claimed that a passenger’s medical mask made them “uncomfortable,” although as we’ll soon see, the fact set is borderline bizarre. The idea that the fact of