The move to ease up on masking, federal officials say, reflects current conditions at this phase of the coronavirus pandemic, including widespread immunity through vaccination and prior infection as well as better access to testing and treatments.
This is a huge mistake. It gives a pass to anti-vaccine COVID deniers to spread the virus. COVID variants rapidly evolve. Increasingly contagious and deadly.
I will continue wearing a KN-95 mask in public indoor spaces. And not eat in restaurants.
I think it is a bit too early to drop mask mandates too.
A part of me wonders if the policy has more to do with the midterms than it does public health.