Forever Mask Mandates

We are reaching the point that many of us predicted and feared. The public-health community and media elites are starting to pivot to forever masking.

With vaccines now available for everybody aged five and up who wants one, highly effective anti-viral drugs on the horizon, the southern surge over, and COVID-19 settling into an endemic pattern, the justifications for maintaining masking requirements keep evaporating. So naturally, the masking obsessives are preparing new reasons to keep up the policy.

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Philip Klein

Philip Klein is the editor of National Review Online.

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We are reaching the point that many of us predicted and feared. The public-health community and media elites are starting to pivot to forever masking.

With vaccines now available for everybody aged five and up who wants one, highly effective anti-viral drugs on the horizon, the southern surge over, and COVID-19 settling into an endemic pattern, the justifications for maintaining masking requirements keep evaporating. So naturally, the masking obsessives are preparing new reasons to keep up the policy.