Quick heads up here. There's a bit of spicy language in this episode. You've been warned.

There's an old episode of the TV show, Candid Camera, I kept thinking about this weekend.

In it, an unsuspecting person gets onto an elevator with a bunch of people who work for the show.

Here's the candid subject.

Here comes the candid camera staff.

Three of them at least. And the candid camera people, they start doing weird stuff in unison.

They all turn to face the back of the elevator.

They take off their hats.

Then they put their hats back on.

They take off their hats.

And now, do you think we could reverse the procedure?

Watch.

And every time these folks do something, the person who is stuck in the elevator with them,

they end up doing whatever the group around them is doing, no matter how absurd.

For me, this weekend, it was just like that candid camera episode, only with masks.

At the park, at my kids' bus stop, I'd roll up, much at the time without a mask, and I'd wait.

I was following this new guidance from the CDC, released last week.

They say vaccinated people can go without masks, almost everywhere, especially outside.

But one by one, the people all around me would stay masked, or they'd find a mask and put it on.

And I'd wonder, hold it.

Am I the asshole?

You know, I've been saying that this decision was based on sound biological science,

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