All summer, people acted like the pandemic had packed its bags. Then Delta showed up to the barbecue. Hospitals fill again, ICUs overflowing, nurses back to exhaustion. And still, America argues about masks like it’s 2020 on repeat. The virus doesn’t care about your freedom. It only cares that you breathe.
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