Question for Fauci: Why are Texas’s cases still declining weeks after their mask mandate was lifted?

The correct answer is the one he won t give. Namely, mask mandates may encourage compliance at the margins but they won t affect what the great majority of residents do. Most people will wear masks voluntarily to protect themselves or others. Hardcore resisters won t wear them and will dare the cops to penalize them for it. It s only the third group, the people who dislike masks but aren t weirdly ideologically committed to not wearing them, who might be convinced to don one by a mandate.

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But that s a small group, I suspect. Small enough that, even if cases are rising within that cohort now that the mandate has lifted, they might be falling statewide overall due to other mitigating factors.

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