‘To me it will be evidence of rank hypocrisy if mask are not mandated during flu outbreaks.’
good point; but the ready rejoinder to that would be ‘but we have a vaccine...’
whether it works or not matters not at all...
Yes we do but not everyone should get the vaccine. Come to think of it we have no idea what percentage of the population did not get the proper number of boosters for measles. That is not even seasonal. Better mask year round. So what if the outbreak was in California; six degrees of separation and all that. Virus particles can be halfway around the world before the the powers that can even begin to destroy the economy.