It may seem like long ago, but it was only last February that Nevada became one of the final states to lift its mask mandate as COVID cases waned. Defenders of the edict insisted it was vital to promote public health and to contain the pandemic. And they haven’t given up.
Many Las Vegas medical offices still require face coverings. Ann Arbor, Michigan, in January brought back forced masking for public school children in an effort to combat the flu. George Washington University still orders students to cover up in classrooms. The headline on a November Time magazine story was “Why Masks Still Matter.” CNBC talked to an infectious disease expert in December who insisted, “You should really mask up again.”
Proponents of masking up have been quick to wrap themselves in the “science.” Thus they may have a difficult time explaining how a new comprehensive review of studies examining the efficacy of face coverings has determined that these government-ordered policies did next to nothing to mitigate the spread of disease.
