The evidence that face masks are not effective in stopping the coronavirus pandemic has now led to new regulations in the operating room, where surgeons and their support teams will no longer be required to wear face masks during medical procedures.

“They just get in the way,” is a common complaint among medical professionals, who constantly have to adjust face masks up and down during delicate operations and find they increase the risk of error, as well as potential contamination of the surgeon’s face, oral, and nasal cavities from blood and other bodily fluids from a patient.

Everyone knows that face masks do not work. They make it difficult to breathe, are itchy, and can also muffle your voice when telling bank employees or cashiers things they need to hear, and even though there have been many intermittent mask mandates both at the state but not the federal level coronavirus transmission rates are now at an all-time high, even though we are at the end of the pandemic.

For similar but unrelated reasons, proposed legislation is also now making its way through congress to do away with seatbelt laws, although with Democrats in charge the bill has little chance of passing. Seatbelts have never been proven to be 100% effective, and they wrinkle clothes and make passengers uncomfortable, especially if a driver needs to turn around to talk to someone in the middle seat.

If, like me, you are tired of the pandemic, hang in there. It will soon go away and everything will go back to normal if we just go about our business and resume life as it was before the pandemic, even though that didn’t work the first time we tried it, or the last two or four times, it will this time.

For more about COVID you might like to read my articles Improving Resistance to Coronavirus and Other Viruses, or Sorry, COVID is Not Going Away Any Time Soon, which I wrote in March of last year.