Outdoor Mask Guidance Echoes What Many Americans Already Do

Outdoor Mask Guidance Echoes What Many Americans Already Do
Masked and unmasked pedestrians walk along the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, on April 27, 2021. John Locher/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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In the small Nebraska town of Oxford, the school district dropped its mask mandate last month in what was a fairly straight-forward decision: Cases were down dramatically, and it didn’t bother local officials that their move flouted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

Those federal mask guidelines just didn’t seem to fit local conditions well in the town of about 800 people where hardly anyone wears a mask.