Universal masking was a bad thing. One need only look at a video of children hysterical with joy at getting rid of their masks to see how much children suffered from masks. Adults are not dancing in the streets, but there is happiness at finally being able to breathe again. Such reactions make it all the more tragic that there are still people so terrified of COVID that they cannot bear to see the masks go. I feel sorry for anyone who is afraid to face the world without a piece of cloth over his (or her) face. I know...