[Trailer] CDC Finally Responds to Masks

Right now, COVID mandates appear to be making a comeback across the country. This really appears to be something like a cosmic coincidence—because, at the same time that the presidential election is beginning to gear up, it appears that various mandates are going back into effect. In a previous episode, we already discussed how colleges and businesses were bringing back various aspects of the mandates, such as mask mandates, contact tracing, obligatory COVID tests, and according to No College Mandates (a group that tracks COVID policies in higher education,) there are still over 100 colleges across the country that require students to be vaccinated in order to attend in-person classes. However, since we aired that episode, the list of mandates has actually grown given the fact that several large hospital systems, using a rise in COVID cases as their excuse, have also reinstated mask mandates.