mask mandates

“Once you get vaccinated, there's no reason to wear a mask.”

“What I don't think that that calculus accounts for Is that the loss is actually not negligible. The loss of telling people broadly to keep wearing masks is a hesitancy to go back to work, a hesitancy in a conservancy to engage in normal economic activity. And …”

“This is why I was in favor of a mask mandate at the beginning of the pandemic is, it's not just an individual decision. Your choice actually does affect whether other people get sick.”

“Listen, I mean, when I supported the mask mandate at the very beginning of the pandemic, you know, it was always as an interim measure. If I had known that people would want to continue this thing forever, there's no way I would have supported it.”