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There seems to be an awful lot of public mask debating going on right now. Picture: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos

Mask debate, mask debate, mask debate — say it fast as your inner 12-year-old snorts and giggles — because there seems to be an awful lot of public mask debating going on right now. Particularly in America, where privileged white Trumpies are screaming I Can’t Breathe because they have been asked to wear face masks in shops, rather than because there is a police officer kneeling on their neck.

In London, there were protests in Hyde Park during lockdown by people screaming that their human rights were being violated because they were being asked to stay in; the same people are now screaming that their human rights are being violated by masks, even as the UK government’s lame-ass policy falls short on specificity.