'A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.'

I blame every leader and "expert" who gaslit the public into thinking they *could* move on with their lives without consequence... but also much of the public's own credulousness and magical thinking to accept that narrative out of convenience.

First paragraph stumbling over itself to assure everyone that there are a hundred good reasons to mask and that thing that starts with C is DEFINITELY NOT still one of them.

"Masking in the car alone lol" was weaponized as a wedge early in the pandemic when the majority was still taking precautions, and it's stayed in the rotation ever since.