That Ioffe tweet at the end, about people not understanding how this stuff works, is still mind boggling to me. I saw a Face the Nation clip with 5 citizens giving their various opinions about it, and one of them, a very outspoken man, was asked why, exactly, he was opposed to wearing a mask, and… crickets. Dude was flummoxed, because all he’d ever been doing was playing a bit part in the really stupid pandemic movie playing in his head. Up till now, when he was simply asked about it, he’d only been “owning the libs”, so no thought required. Or so I would guess.