Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast.

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and go subscribe. We bring in now Alex Baronson. We were scheduled to talk to him on Friday. He joins

us now. Alex, appreciate you making the time. Everything good in the family.

Everything is fine. The emergency is over in Tainelmore.

Okay, good deal. All right. Let's dive into the latest on COVID.

I want to know what your reaction was from the CDC's statements on Friday dealing with mask

squaring. Then on Sunday, we had the congressional health officials say, oh, by the way,

you don't have to wear a mask on Capitol Hill anymore. We've seen certainly cities and states,

New York City and New York memorably of late saying, hey, kids don't have to wear in the state

of New York starting Wednesday masks anymore. New York City's done away with outdoor masking,

and they say maybe by March 7th, they can go away overall. What are we seeing? And is this all

an example not of science, but political science based on the data?

Well, I mean, it's science in the sense that, you know, masks do nothing.

And, you know, in cloth and surgical masks certainly do nothing. And 95 is probably too

close to nothing unless you know, wear the proper, we've talked about this for years. So,

they are finally following the science. You know, they have cover to do it right now because

Omicron is, you know, is fading in the United States, fortunately. There will be another variant,

almost certainly cases will go back up, whether that's in the summer, in the south as, you know,

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