“Do something” is not science, and it shouldn’t have been public policy.
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It fills me with so much rage seeing the New York Times pretend they didn’t vociferously support this; “The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?” (www.nytimes.com)

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