Lowry: The left's coming defeat in the mask wars
The U.S. is an international outlier in its school mask mandates.
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The U.S. is an international outlier in its school mask mandates.
The U.S. is an international outlier in its school mask mandates.
The late economist Herb Stein famously said, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." Well, masking can't go on forever, but that's not stopping its advocates, who will very likely, when all is said and done, look nearly as foolish as the fierce proponents of school closures earlier in the pandemic.
Many leftists have a deep attachment to masks based on an a priori commitment to them as a totem of public safety and private virtue.
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