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Or could masks simply have been politically convenient, a way for politicians, in the midst of a problem beyond their control, to appear to be “doing something” while having an easy scapegoat — unmasked people — if the numbers didn’t go their way?

The UK, meanwhile, has just undergone its third lockdown. Cases have come way down. Naturally the politicians are congratulating themselves: the lockdown did it!

Except the United States was not on lockdown during that time, and yet the same trajectory is evident in both places. As Ian Miller (my guest for the forthcoming episode #1851 of the Tom Woods Show) puts it, the UK lockdown was so powerful it also brought the numbers down in the U.S.! It’s like magic!