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So as you know, the CDC has said that masks are not terribly necessary if you're fully vaccinated, but states still get to make up their own decisions. So my state, the dumbest and most incompetent of all states in the universe, has decided it's going to keep its mask mandate in place.

Now I was walking around a little bit since the mandate had been lifted by the federal government, and I do note that California is fully compliant. People riding their bikes all by themselves wearing masks. People jogging all by themselves with nobody, nobody within viewing distance, masked up. Yeah, we are so fully masked in California you can't get a virus past us, let me tell you.

But several retailers — Walmart, Costco, Trader Joe's — have said that you don't need a mask if you're fully vaccinated. But of course the state can overrule that, as it does in California.

But here's what you need to know. Governments, they rule when they're credible. If your government is doing reasonable enough stuff, the public will probably follow them. When your government, be it federal or be it a state, starts doing things which are obviously not reasonable — I mean just obviously not reasonable — at that point your obligation to obey them disappears. Now there's a risk, right? You still take the risk if you disobey them. But your obligation is