‘The emergency is over,” said the Democratic governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, Friday night. He seems to recognize that the most effective intervention that humanity is likely to come up with against Covid has been out for a year now. With new therapeutics a few weeks away, perhaps, there is little sense in trying to control Covid with the massively disruptive and largely ineffective medieval techniques of . . . hiding in our homes, or behind a veil of cloth or thin paper. “Public health [officials] don’t get to tell people what to wear; that’s just not their job,” Polis said.
He is even willing to stand behind it. When an interviewer probed Polis by quoting a health-care worker who was demanding a statewide mask mandate, he was polite but curt: “Public-health [officials] would say to always wear a mask because it decreases flu” and decreases other airborne illnesses, he said. “But that’s not something that you [the state] require.”
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