In another “gravity defying” development, the New York Times published an op-ed late last week headlined, “Let Kids Take Their Masks Off After the Omicron Surge.” Oddly, the op-ed is written by one of the Times’ staff op-ed columnists, Michelle Goldberg. I say oddly, because just a mere four days earlier, Goldberg penned another op-ed, except this one was headlined, “What does it mean to be ‘Done with Covid?’ While the pandemic rages, normality isn’t an option.” Now that sounds a lot more like the New York Times we’ve all come to loathe and mistrust!

So, what happened over four days to transform one of the Times’ top opinion editors from “normality isn’t an option” in her January 24th editorial, but just four days later, to “masking was intended to be a short-term intervention” and “keeping kids in masks month after month also inflicts harm, even if it’s not always easy to measure”?

So how pray tell are the “experts” at the New York Times going to straddle this new reality. Well, if you read on, Goldberg goes on to describe a Harvard professor who suggests that “For anyone who fears moving away from universal masking, the great news is that they can continue to wear an N95 mask in addition to being vaccinated and boosted of course, this would allow them to live a low-risk life regardless of what others around them are doing.”

So, in other words, if you’re scared about being around maskless people (quite frankly who isn’t), just put on an N95 mask, take your injections, and you’ll be good to go! In other words, “you do you and don’t worry about what everyone else is doing”, now is it me or does this sound vaguely familiar?

Can’t quite place my finger on it, can you?