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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday,

April 20th, 2022. I'm John Pothor. It's the editor of Commentary with me.

It's always executive editor, a Greenwald hi-a.

John. Associate editor, Noah Rothman, Hinoa.

Hey, John.

And senior writer, Christine Rosenhike Christine.

Hi, John.

So we're in day two of the supposed post-mask era and at least in some places,

certainly the place that I live, the finding of the

judge that the mask mandate was, um, was an unconstitutional use of executive

power, uh, has just thrown everything into chaos rather than liberation.

We are in a, we are in a complete state of weirdness just to give it to you very

quickly. Uh, O'Hare Airport still has a mask mandate.

Uh, JFK and LaWarty have mask mandates. Penn Station has a mask mandate,

but Amtrak does not have a mask mandate. So you can take your train

into Penn Station in New York with your mask off.

But then when you, when you step off the train onto the platform,

you are obliged to have your mask on. If you were riding on the Long Island Railroad,

the, the largest or the most used commuter line in the United States,

once you cross the border from Queens into Long Island into Nassau County,

you can take your mask off. But when you're inside the border of New York City,

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