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Hey, John Ziegler, great columnist.

He's the senior columnist at Mediaite.

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At Zigman Freud on Twitter. John Ziegler, how you doing? I'm doing okay, Mark. Always good to talk to you. So tell me about the Super Bowl last night.

First of all, nobody anywhere was wearing a mask. What is that telling America? Well, you know, as a person who has been saying from the beginning that masks don't work

and I have two children in school who are forced to be masked, this has been a big issue in my life.

And, you know, I don't know if you are aware, but everyone that went to the Super Bowl was given

an N95 mask and almost no one used them.

Now, I was conflicted as to which way I wanted this to go down, but yeah, you're right.

Almost nobody was wearing the mask.

I don't know what's going to happen to those 75,000 N95s.

I'm sure they're going to be dumped in a wasteland somewhere.

That's great for the environment.

But I think that what we've seen with football in general, in the Super Bowl in particular,

is that these polls that indicate that most Americans are in favor of masks and mask mandates

are completely inaccurate. Because in the real world,

when people are given a choice of any sort whatsoever, they almost always choose not to wear

the mask, especially when those around them are not wearing it. There's a magic number. It's

somewhere in about a 60 percentile range that when you're in a group where over 60

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