Well I note that your county health department has a lot to say about masks but nothing at all about getting vaccinated. Of the one thing that will save us from this, not a word. Boris Johnson is a complete buffoon, but in every one of his public messages he encourages us all to get the booster. The vaccines and the boosters, incontrovertibly, have decimated deaths and hospitalisations. Wear your mask wherever and whenever you like. I wear mine where I'm legally obliged to, end of. There is no scientific evidence that masks are anything more than fiddling round the edges. The lack of balance in your quote is staggering.

Almost all the people in intensive care and/or on ventilators in the UK are unvaccinated. Now that is evidence. On the other hand, we had a maskless summer in 2020 and a virtually maskless one in 2021. In both summers, case rates hit almost rock bottom. As a scientist, I know that I mustn't extrapolate from those obstinate facts, and I won't. But if I'd chosen to, I'd at least have a darn sight more to back me than the mask obsessives ever have.