FROM JC

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a startling but weirdly unsurprising story yesterday headlined, “Atlanta college reinstates COVID-19 mask mandate as students return to city.”

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A week after classes began, historically-black Morris Brown College is now, again, mandating students and employees to wear useless, germ-ridden face masks on campus.

The college’s emergency announcement went out on Sunday.

In its ‘emergency’ weekend notice, the school cited “reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center” as the rationale for the new mandates. But the Journal-Constitution’s reporters asked Morris Brown President Kevin James for more details. He contradicted Sunday’s emergency notice, saying in an email Monday that the college has received no reports of covid cases on its own campus, but described the new mandates as “precautionary measures.”

Uh huh. Some ‘emergency.’ It’s fair to say these Morris Brown leaders aren’t the nation’s top thinkers. They are hysterical nitwits.

If Morris Brown’s overly-dramatic academics and students want to put on more covid theater, I say good luck to them. But, is Morris Brown just a kooky outlier, or is it a canary in the covid mine? Will face mask mandates spread across the country faster than a new, even more transmissible hyperspace variant?

I doubt it. I know for sure that masking won’t return in Florida, because mandatory face masking at colleges and universities is now illegal, thanks to Florida’s terrific legislature and governor.

And now that mandatory masking is illegal in Florida — as well as some other outposts of sanity — it will be easier than ever to compare relative rates of covid infections in masking areas against rates in non-masking areas. This will be great! I’m actually looking forward to it. We’ll finally have some super-obvious ways to figure out whether masks “work” or not.

And that is the reason why I don’t think masking will spread. They won’t want that kind of evidence.

Finally, if I were a Morris Brown student, I’d be wondering at this point whether my education dollars were well-spent there. The people running that school could mask their brains and no one would notice.