John Tierney writes in City-Journal that the maskaholics are back, once again dishing out ineffective Covid restrictions and unwarranted fear mongering:
Never mind that at least 97 percent of Americans have Covid antibodies in their blood as a result of infection, vaccination, or both. Never mind that actual experts—the ones who studied the scientific literature before 2020 and drew up plans for a pandemic—advised against masking the public. Never mind that their advice has been further bolstered during the pandemic by randomized clinical trials and rigorous observational studies failing to find an effect of masks and mask mandates. Scientific evidence cannot overcome the maskaholics’ faith.
It’s tempting to compare them with the villagers in Cambodia who erected scarecrows in front of their huts to ward off the coronavirus—but that’s not fair to the villagers. Their Ting Mong, as the magic scarecrows are called, at least didn’t hurt any of their neighbors.
So which shul is going to jump in the pool first and require masks, or maybe a Vax ID card to enter the building? Who will be the first to put up a tent again and daven outside, or maybe put a little shmata on the shofar again lest the breath of the baal tokea travel out of the shofar and c"v infect someone sitting in the same room? After all, no one ever bothered to quantify what level of risk constitutes a sakana, so whose to say we are not at that point already with the new variant?
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