In some ways Japan and South Korea might be at least partially to blame for the multiyear long obsession with masking in most of the western world.
Many governments, especially in the United States, appeared to believe that the early “success” of countries on the Asian continent was due to a widespread cultural acceptance of masking.
That misguided assumption helped direct public health agencies, politicians, school boards and media outlets to shred dozens of high quality pre-COVID st...
