An April 16 incident on a Southwest Airlines flight shows the problems with mask fetishism, along with continuing evidence of the dying of common sense and the desperate need for COVID-related lawsuit protections.

I’m actually all for mask-wearing in enclosed places, but that’s not the issue. (Also, as the point here is not to bash Southwest or to litigate each specific aspect of the story as told by the passenger, but rather to make those broader points above, I have not asked Southwest for a point-by-point response to each element of that story.)