As we all come closer to the much-anticipated day when we can all put COVID behind us, do we really want to punish forever those among us who once defied the mask police in the friendly skies?

Attorney General Merrick Garland is considering doing exactly that after Delta Air Lines sent the Department of Justice a letter last month asking him to create a “zero tolerance” national no-fly list of unruly passengers who would be banned from all domestic air travel forever.