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Topic: Facemasks

People clap, cheer, and display protest signs during the Kentucky Freedom Rally at the capitol building on August 28, 2021 in Frankfort, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Meet the anti-maskers... of 1847

Matthew Rozsa
Children playing in the park in face masks (Getty Images)

Can masks inhibit speech development?

Alex Hazlett - Undark
Protesters in front of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) building in Los Angeles, California on March 12, 2021, calling on OSHA to do more to protect workers from Farmer John's slaughterhouse where the total number of Covid-19 positive cases reached 789 as of March 11, totalling almost half the workforce of 1,837 workers. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Unions warned against a mask rollback

Bob Hennelly
Yellow cab taxi drivers block traffic in a protest demanding debt forgiveness for cabbies hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, in New York City on February 10, 2021. - New York City taxi cab drivers held a day of action calling for debt forgiveness for loss of income amid work shortage due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Labor horrified at end of mask mandate

Bob Hennelly
FFP2 respirator mask with air filtering valve (Pierre Teyssot/AGF/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The CDC's contradictory advice on masks

Frederick Clarkson, Jonathan Hutson
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