Opinions | Some women mask up to deflect attention, but what we really want is freedom Leigh Stein People stroll in Annapolis, Md., on April 29. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) I was sitting in a clinic waiting room before my second shot of the coronavirus vaccine when President Biden announced that the new CDC guidelines permit fully vaccinated Americans to resume activities, both indoors and outdoors, without masking. I could have cried with relief, but then I would have had to remove my mask to wipe my nose so I kept my emotions in check, for the sake of public health. After more than a year of restrictions, sacrifices and loss, I naively assumed that everyone would celebrate this news. I underestimated how many of my peers millennial women with progressive politics would prefer to continue masking in public.
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