Hey, everyone, it's Mary.

Today's show has just the tiniest pinch of foul language.

You've been warned.

I'm wondering if you and I can start out by talking about what your Twitter mentions look like right now.

Oh, my God.

Shannon Paulus writes about science here at Slate.

They were really, really bad after the piece published.

I'm very addicted to Twitter anyway.

And every time I opened up the app,

it would just be like dozens and dozens of new notifications.

A lot of them telling me to like eat poop and die. And I had to give my phone to Matt,

my boyfriend for a while. I was like, you can't, I can't be near this. It's causing me pain.

What are people so upset with you about?

I suggested it might be maybe, perhaps, time for us as a collective group to consider that we don't need to mask all the time outside.

You are being so careful.

Yes.

Shannon's article was titled,

It's about time for us to stop wearing masks outside.

And plenty of public health experts,

and even a writer at the Stodgy New England Journal of Medicine,

weighed in to say, Shannon was right here.

That didn't stop the Twitter warfare from escalating.

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