Rachel Gutman has an interesting piece at the mainstream journal, The Atlantic, on masks. She gives a good case against their scientific efficiency, and also showing how the mandates are even stupid, due to inconsistency of use, if the sorts of masks worn by people even work at all. But the conclusion is, if I read this right: “But no mandate is ever going to be perfectly consistent, and that’s okay. Mask policies can still make sense, so long as they serve a community’s shared goals.” But that is exactly the question, since most people would believe that the masks are acting for protection against Covid. If the masks offer no protection, I don’t think many, outside of the Left, would wear them just to be branded as Covid state obedient.
