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“#We’re not going back to masks and lockdowns again<\/strong>”
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Are we really doing this again? Are we really talking about returning to masking? Again? <\/p>\n

Last weekend, Los Angeles County reinstituted its mask mandate for indoor settings. More than 60 percent of the county is fully vaccinated, but the mandate app<\/a>lies to both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move is absurd in several ways. For starters, it throws shade on the vaccines. If vaccination works, why do the vaccinated need to be masked? And if we do still need to be masked post-vaccine, why would anyone take the jabs? The vaccinated are protected, and the unvaccinated have had enough time to get vaccinated. We have to move on.<\/p>\n

But beyond that, there\u2019s the added question of whether mask mandates have made any difference in containing COVID.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In March, when Texas and Mississippi dropped their mask mandates, President Joe Biden criticized the moves as \u201cneanderthal thinking\u201d and said it was too soon to stop wearing masks. The blue-check media<\/a> predicted a COVID holocaust in these states. That didn\u2019t happen. Case numbers collapsed in the months after the mandates ended.<\/p>\n

But, as I\u2019ve been writing in these pages all along, we were wearing masks all wrong anyway.<\/p>\n

In May 2020, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that a \u201cshocking\u201d 66 percent of those hospitalized for COVID had contracted it in their homes. New York\u2019s mask mandate had started on April 15, 2020. Another 24 percent of patients at that point had also contracted it in their living situation, whether a nursing home or prison.<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t change when lockdowns were eased. By December 2020, New York\u2019s contact-tracing operation showed that \u201c70 percent of new COVID-19 cases originate from households and small gatherings.\u201d And in October, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said it was \u201csmall household gatherings\u201d largely driving the uptick of cases in the Garden State.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t passing by someone on the street. It wasn\u2019t shopping or exercising or going to school. It was general<\/a>ly close contact inside homes that continued to spread COVID. Bringing back masks in the low-risk situations will do exactly nothing to stop COVID from spreading in situations such as gatherings with family and friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So why do we keep returning to ineffective mitigation measures like masking in public spaces? It\u2019s as if we have a mental block around the reality that masking like this is largely pointless.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sometimes, after my 5-year-old suffers a spill, he requests a Band-Aid, even if nothing is bleeding. It makes him feel better, so I stick a little Batman Band-Aid wherever he wants. But I don\u2019t also stick the Batman Band-Aids all over his siblings, just in case. I don\u2019t force everyone around him into Band-Aids to ease his<\/em> mental anguish: the equivalent of fearful people forcing the rest of us into masks again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut shouldn\u2019t we do it, just in case?\u201d people ask me. No, we should not. The unnecessary measures and rules are one reason why there is so much mistrust of the vaccines now. <\/p>\n

We were told to do pointless things for our own good. We knew these things were irrational, but rules were rules: New York City shut down playgrounds and green spaces but opened up city streets alongside those shuttered playgrounds and green spaces. It was ridiculous, and everyone knew it. We can\u2019t go down the stupid road again.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @Karol<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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