@namd4kids And the truth is that public health is politics and sometimes the best thing for public health and safety is what actually can be implemented politically. Covid burned a huge amount of public trust in government institutions like the CDC. The GQP is salivating at the idea that the CDC might even hint that mask mandates were coming back (the the point of inventing sources at the TSA) because they know that a majority of Americans will be actively hostile to them and in by proxy hostile to the democratic administration.
The CDC implementing mask mandates now would be about as effective as Nancy Reagan was at stopping AIDS by calling abstinence from sex.