As you know this writer and many others were giving you the facts on COVID and masks. In the long run MASKS ARE PRETTY MUCH WORTHLESS. But the science was ignored. Junk theorists like Tony the Fauch and others put forward lies. Well the NY Times did a nice piece.
Mask Mandates did nothing. Will any lessons be learned? So the Florida governor will get no apology, but he will have to settle for being vindicated. This from the NY Times.
But when it comes to the population-level benefits of masking, the verdict is in: Mask mandates were a bust. Those skeptics who were furiously mocked as cranks and occasionally censored as “misinformers” for opposing mandates were right. The mainstream experts and pundits who supported mandates were wrong. In a better world, it would behoove the latter group to acknowledge their error, along with its considerable physical, psychological, pedagogical and political costs.
The governor was one of the few who had our back.