After now two full years of being called conspiracy theorists and murderers for opposing the stupid face masks,

conservatives and normal people everywhere are being vindicated as even prominent liberal public health

figures are coming out against mask mandates. CNN's Medical Expert, Liana Wu, explains why it is

so important to ditch the mask mandates as soon as possible.

You say we can start removing at least some coronavirus restrictions. Now tell us why.

Well, I agree with Colorado with many other local and state jurisdictions that are beginning to

lift government mandates. And I think this is the key. I'm not saying that we should be stopping

masking, but rather that this needs to shift from a government requirement to an individual decision.

The government can't keep on telling our citizens that this is a five alarm fire all the time.

People are just going to start tuning it out and not pay attention. They'll be desensitized.

And so what needs to happen is we need to end the state of emergency and preserve the ability

of public health authorities to re-institute mandates in the future if we see more

more dangerous variants later. Now if Wu wants to preserve the credibility of public health gurus,

I think she's probably about 18 to 24 months too late for that one. But did you catch the

reasoning there? She's saying that we need to end the mask mandates not to preserve the public health,

but to preserve the authority of the public health officials. She's making not a scientific or

medical argument, but a political one. If the ruling class doesn't lighten up on the mask soon,

she fears no one will listen to them on the masks or anything else in the future.

And she's right. It is pure politics. As some of us were saying from day one,

you know I hate to say I told you so on Michael Knowles, as the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Vinny Durham,

who says no matter what happens to Jimmy Carter in the next few years, he will always vote

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