Why is my vaccinated 6-year-old wearing a mask?

Reason’s Matt Welch writes, “President Joe Biden on Tuesday afternoon made some more public remarks about the still-spiking omicron variant of COVID-19. It wasn't pretty.

Of particular interest was the president's insistence on continuing to call it a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ a slogan that was unwise in July, untrue by December, and unbelievable at a time when the positive case rate in a 62 percent fully vaccinated country just reached an all-time high.

"This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated," @JoeBiden continues to say, as case rates hit record highs in highly vaccinated states https://t.co/JmFjW7XldI

— reason (@reason) January 4, 2022

‘Those who are fully vaccinated, especially those with the booster shots…you can still get COVID, but it's highly unlikely, it's very unlikely that you'll become seriously ill,’ Biden said, accurately. But then: ‘This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated.’

If the pandemic indeed no longer applies to me, my family, and the vast majority of people I know (about half of whom seem to have contracted COVID over the past month), then I have a couple of follow-up questions, beginning with: Why on earth is my vaccinated 6-year-old, all the vaccinated kids in her class and after-school, and all her vaccinated teachers and supervisory staff, being forced by state law (influenced directly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to wear masks all day long?”

Read the entire column.