This is the Best Way to Be Ineffective

Disclaimer: This post is not about the efficacy of masks for COVID.

I was watching The Crown on Netflix and in one of the early episodes, there’s a depiction of the Great London Fog of 1952. The government was aloof as citizens suffered from thick air pollution laced with toxins. I had never heard of this real-life crisis, but thousands of Londoners died from five days of heavy fog laced with air…