the media pretty much bullied the cdc and the biden administration into removing the original mask mandate. they said not wearing a mask should be the reward for being vaccinated. they were more concerned with messaging and rose colored-reporting than scientific/medical consensus. and the supposed incentive they said would take shape didnt even really happen (vaccination rates fell anyway).

none of these news dickheads will take responsibility and admit fault tho. instead theyll spend the next few months blaming the biden administration for the catastrophic rise in covid cases among lowly vaccinated red states where the republican governors pretty much ignored all sound covid protocols and wont pay a single political price for it (ron desantis won the pandemic! (c) beltway media).