“The CDC does not mandate anything,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci. But if a Covid surge leads to a recommendation that people wear masks, “I hope they would abide by the recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and to their families. We are not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.”

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    Hindsight’s 20/20 of course, but letting the term “mask mandate” proliferate was a huge mistake. That’s just daring people not to follow the rules. “Mask advisory” or “mask recommendation” wouldn’t have pissed off nearly as many people.

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      Nah. What youre doing is darvo and tone policing. The correct thing to do in a global pandemic is mandate masks. The people in charge who did so did the correct thing. The mask toddlers who threw a tantrum need not be pandered to. They would have thrown a fit no matter the language used.

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        And now if they were to come out with “masks recommended”. All the idiots would rejoice that it’s not mandated.

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        Given how some of those toddlers were the very police who would’ve needed to enforce said mandate, it’s not as simple as “don’t pander to them”. Especially since, let’s be honest, putting all the people who refused to mask up into jail cells would’ve been extremely counter-intuitive.

        We claimed it was a mandate but it very quickly became clear that was in name only, which is my main gripe about it. They shouldn’t have called it a “mandate” unless they were prepared to enforce it like one, which they weren’t.

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      You sure? Are you seeing the reaction to a potential change to the USDA’s alcohol advice?

      These people have an obsession with being treaded on.

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        Humans are geared for conflict and our minds are both powerful enough and stupid enough to create it if none exist. In America that’s morphed into "if you tell me what to do I’m being oppressed " regardless of circumstance

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          It’s not always oppression per se but there are definitely people who hear about a rule or restriction and just think “challenge accepted!”