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On last week's episode with Justin Feldman, we got a chance to get our sort of immediate

early reactions to the move of mask mandates being dropped by Democratic governors. And we talked

about the role that the urgency of normal squad and their friends like Lena Wen have played

in really selling this idea to the public and also helping create

the sort of necessary legitimacy to push it over the line so quickly from abstract idea to

blanket policy.

Bringing it into reality.

Yeah.

Today we are revisiting this topic to talk about how this framework has just exploded over the last week,

inviting some truly awful takes like Yasha Mung's piece called Open Everything.

But it has also really set the stage for some anti-mask messaging to start coming out of

liberals this week. And the landscape of sort of who will not be protected now has not actually changed.

It's still the elderly, the medically vulnerable, immune compromised, and young children,

right? Not to mention the fact that all of these plans ignore long COVID and the risks of people

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