We said it was coming yesterday: the spreading of fear to allow the government to impose new restrictions on our constitutional rights. From McClatchy:

Do the vaccinated need masks as Delta variant spreads? What experts say of WHO advice

By Katie Camero | June 28, 2021 | 6:53 PM | Updated: June 29, 2021 | 12:03 AM EDT

The COVID-19 vaccines will never be perfect; fully vaccinated people can still get infected, though they’re much less likely to be hospitalized or die from the disease. Yet, the Delta coronavirus variant first discovered in India has some experts concerned.

The World Health Organization suggested on Friday that fully vaccinated people still wear face masks whenever possible, citing the Delta variant’s increased transmissibility and risk of serious COVID-19 across the globe.

“People cannot feel safe just because they had the two doses. They still need to protect themselves… vaccines alone won’t stop community transmission,” Dr. Mariangela Simao, WHO assistant director-general for access to medicines and health products, said during a virtual press conference on June 25. “People need to continue to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces, hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, the physical distance, avoid crowding.”

The advice arrived more than a month after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the green light for fully vaccinated Americans to ditch their masks in most scenarios — a time when little was known about the Delta (Δ) variant or its whereabouts.

The CDC has yet to publicly respond to the WHO’s advice, but many health experts outside either agency seem to agree with erring on the side of caution.

There’s more at the original, and for this article, the paywall has been removed.

Really, there’s just more of the same, the recommendation repeated by other ‘experts’ that even fully vaccinated people should wear masks. The Pfizer vaccine has supposedly been studied against the so-called ‘Delta variant,’ and purportedly provides 88% protective efficiency, while such studies have yet to be done with the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The Δ variant is supposedly about 60% more contagious than the Alpha (α) variant which hit the United States initially, and now there’s a slightly modified Δ + variant as well.

What does all of this mean? Well, it means that, if the CDC decides to accept the WHO ideas, petty dictators like Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) will try to reimpose the mask mandate. The state Supreme Court has yet to rule on the cases before it, in which the Governor sought to have the legislation passed, over his veto, by the General Assembly last February declared invalid, and it isn’t difficult to imagine a court which has always been compliant to our petty dictator’s whims to go along with him.

If people want to wear masks, and I do see a little of that here in the Bluegrass State, then that is, and ought to be, their individual choice. But the government does not and should not have the authority to mandate them.