Confession: I get triggered by folks in masks these days. It’s me, not you. I was running on the Huckleberry Trail here in Blacksburg recently (it’s July 2022 - over two years since “15 days to slow the spread”1), and a young couple was walking on the trial - wearing masks.2

Nevermind all the other data that has poured in for the last two years about the ineffectiveness of lockdowns, social distancing, etc. The reason I get triggered is that it’s not good for people to wear masks constantly. Especially outdoors. In 92 degree heat (RealFeel that day was 100!). And it’s not good for people to wear masks when it’s been proven that they are completely ineffective.