The CDC released updated guidance May 13 advising that fully vaccinated people could largely resume normal activities without masking. Pictured: A health care worker at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center receives a COVID-19 vaccination on Dec. 16 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images) Commentary By Jason Dudash is the Oregon state director of the Freedom Foundation, a national nonprofit organization committed to advancing individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited, accountable government. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidance three weeks ago advising that fully vaccinated people could largely resume normal activities without masking, many saw it as the light at the end of the long tunnel of the COVID-19 pandemic.