Today, the CDC announced that most Americans live in places where healthy people can go without wearing masks indoors.

The guidelines focus more on what's happening at hospitals and less on positive test results.

Under the new guidelines, most Americans and most of the country can now go mask-free.

And based on projections, everybody's got an opinion about this topic. What's yours? I just know people are tired. And the scarlet letter of

this pandemic is the mask. It may be painless. It may be easy, but it's inconvenient. It's

annoying. And it reminds us that we're in the middle of a pandemic. Welcome to the death panel. To support the show and get access to all our weekly bonus episodes, become a patron at patreon.com slash deaf panel pod.

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Moving on to today's episode, Artie Phil and I are here, and we're going to be talking in depth today about the newest changes to the CDC's masking guidelines and what this might mean for workers,

high risk and medically vulnerable people and the family, housemates, coworkers, neighbors,

and friends of the immunocompromised. And I think what it means in terms of the putative end of

the pandemic that we've been talking about, will they, won't't they declare and I think the answer is mission

accomplished as it's like it's just different iterations there are so many ways to say mission

accomplished really and I think this is one of them which we'll get into that's right right and just

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