I will have a mask supply for life.

There are a lot of reasons we let this pandemic win. But one of the big reasons is we let a minority of crybabies frame mask wearing as some sort of punishment. Masks have saved lives. Masks are cool. Mask wearing reduces the number of common colds we get. Mask wearing prevents the transmission of influenza and exotic animal diseases like, oh, SARS, a virus family that has now killed millions of people. Masks allow us to go to shops, and go out and live life a little during a pandemic. Most of all, masks work. They were the only tool we had during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic. They were all we had before we had the mRNA vaccines in late 2020. The fact that people cheered when a judge killed the mask mandates on domestic flights demonstrates how we shifted our thinking in two years. We’re no better than the thugs who stormed the Capitol. We’re part of the decline of this nation.

Study after study shows that wearing a mask cuts the wearer’s infection risk by at least 50%. I think it is greater than that. And a lot of the early air travel studies didn’t take into account that transmission is more likely at the gate and during the boarding process than in the cabin itself (which itself is not as low risk as the industry says - remember how many times you caught a cold after a flight?).

The WHO and Pfizer seem to have a consensus. We are in the second half of a 4-year pandemic. This seems correct to me. We need to get through a winter without a big wave. Pfizer estimates that the pandemic will become an endemic in early 2024. People deny that COVID-19 is a serious disease. People think that this was all a plot by Pfizer to make billions. But I believe Pfizer. They have not yet been proven incorrect on this virus. And COIVD-19 is still an exotic bat disease you do not want to catch.