It’s November 2023 and masks are officially back.

It’s been increasingly likely over the past few months, but the largest and most significant return of mask mandates is here. Not just at a college, a White House event, or at a specific company. But a mask mandate that impacts members of the general public.

It’s not surprising, given the amount of work “The Experts” did, and continue to do, to mislead the public about the efficacy of masks.

Mandates affecting the general public are, of course, the most intolerable and unacceptable decisions made by administrators and public health officials. But almost equally as bad are efforts to encourage masking once again as we head into winter. And boy oh boy are those efforts ramping right back up.