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net. All righty. So the big story of the day is that Blue States have now realized it is time

to begin removing all pandemic restrictions like mask mandates in schools. So what you ask changed.

What actually changed? Because here is the thing. We've known for a very, very long time that cloth

masks have been completely useless against Amacron. Right. We've known this for a very long time.

We've known the cloth masks. We're not particularly useful against Delta. There's no,

there's no data that cloth masks were useful against Delta. And there's been no data throughout the entire pandemic. That masking in schools was actually useful. The only study that's been cited is a very flawed study that was taken apart by no lesser a source than the Atlantic. Okay, so the simple fact of the matter is there's been very little data to back many of the pandemic restrictions, particularly since the advent of the vaccines. Before the vaccines, you could at least make the case that we needed some social distancing, that we needed some restrictions on what kind of masks you were wearing when you were in close quarters with people who are elderly. But generally speaking, once the vaccines were available, which was a year ago, once the vaccines were available and everyone had the opportunity to get them, who was an adult and truly at risk, at that point, all of this should have gone away. And in places like Florida, it did go away. And for large swaths of the population who were young, in places like Florida, it had gone away even before the vaccines were available. But now blue states are beginning to reverse themselves. And so the question is, what exactly changed?

And the Biden administration has been steadily moving toward the idea that we need to move beyond the pandemic.

And the reason that they are doing this is they must just be getting crushed in their internal polling.

This must be true for all Democrats across the country.

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