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Thursday, 5 June 2025

When June Became the Cruellest Month

Five years ago this month, with the introduction of mask mandates, the world changed. And I did, too.

Do you remember what life was like back in early 2020, before the Covid craziness began? One day we were being told that not only was it unnecessary to wear a ‘face covering’, but it was, according to existing knowledge, wisdom and best practice, a mistake to do so. The next day The Science™ flipped and we were being instructed that we must wear them in a variety of settings, on pain of social shaming and financial penalty. (At Smile Free we’ve documented the whole masking timeline here.)

Do you remember what happened when the masking switch was flipped? People started appearing in public dressed as if they were Jesse James on his way to rob a Rock Island Line train....<<<Read More>>>...