“We all need to prepare for not only the possibility of continued disruptions but for another new normal that might be a little closer to 2020 than how we’ve recently been living,” Aron Solomon wrote last week in The Hill under the headline: “Summer COVID surge shows we may have to return to 2020 pandemic measures.” Solomon, chief strategy officer for Amplify, a legal marketing and media agency, also complained that “the federal government’s response to the latest surge has been tepid at best.” Earlier last month, the Los Angeles Times reported that “a number of health officials, from California to New York, have been suggesting that more people consider” returning to masks and physical distancing, “given the jump in coronavirus infections.” CNN started its summer surge story suggesting that it might “be time to dust off the face masks,” while Patch noted on Aug. 14 that California health officials have implored “residents to wear masks indoors once again.” The positivity test rate is now in decline, having peaked just before the middle of the month.
When it was clear that our liberties were going to be violated by public officials’ overreaction to the 2020 novel coronavirus outbreak, we considered encouraging Americans to engage in civil disobedience against the unlawful orders that were about to be issued.
Business owners need to keep their doors open.
We regret that we did not write that editorial.
We have no such hesitation in 2024, though.
Should mask rules return, they must be defied.
Those who believe they need to wear masks while in public, at home, driving alone in their automobiles or walking outside with no one nearby are free to do so.
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