Masks

“Now that everyone’s stopped masking, it’s harder to tell I’m an asshole.”

“I thought we were done with masks.”

“If I’m no longer the guy at the grocery store with his nose sticking out over the top of his mask, then who even am I?”

“The framers of the Constitution clearly wanted to prevent the infringement of Americans’ right to board any airplane they want,” she said.

There’s a new trend sweeping the office.

“I’ve had it with the helmet mandates.”

“I just decided to rethink my position on masks.”

At one event, riled-up conservatives got so out of hand that the board chair halted the proceedings while the police cleared the room.

“So suddenly I need to ‘show you papers’ and ‘not be fully nude’ to board an international flight? What freedoms will they take from us next?!”

“Just how long do you expect this plague to go on?”

“Aw, look at all these photos of us wearing masks, back when we were all able to live aboveground.”

“The benefit of wearing masks is so clear, it’s obvious to us that no one has explained this issue properly to Mr. DeSantis,” one five-year-old said.

“He’s vaccinated and unmasked . . . he’s not vaccinated and unmasked. . . .”

Mark Levine doesn’t want New Yorkers to overreact or underreact to the Delta variant. He does want them to cover their faces when indoors with strangers.

I missed seeing people’s faces; I missed showing mine, too. I knew that, in the grand scheme of things, this was trivial, but it also, somehow, mattered.

Three things made the late-pandemic Frieze New York a tonic: the joy of seeing works in person, the smaller number of galleries, and face masks.

A delightful and challenging new game for the era of easing mask mandates!

Monitoring the human face through technology has become the default mode of public encounter.

Updated guidelines for safe mask use.

“Sigh, the forecast said that there was only a slight chance of masks.”