If you want to return to normal, wear a mask and suck it up

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The advent of summer is allowing businesses such as churches and restaurants to operate outside, increasing evidence that the coronavirus has limited capacity outdoors. This is making it clear that all we need to return to relative normalcy, outside of basic social distancing precautions, are masks.

Contrary to the original official line, we’ve known for some time that masks, even homemade ones, are extremely effective at inhibiting the transmission of airborne respiratory diseases similarly sized to the coronavirus.

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