After reading the Recorder’s front-page story (“Will CDC end COVID isolation?” Feb. 21) I was in a bad mood that morning. Firstly, why is that woman wearing a mask in her own home, pray tell? That’s crazy. Secondly, being forced to mask up in a hospital in 2024 is equally as crazy. Last February, The New York Times ran a column titled “The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?” Apparently nothing has been learned, because we’re still being ordered to obey our betters.

Julia Duncan

Northfield