News You Can Snooze

I don't know about you guys, but where I live face masks are freely available at the entrance to every supermarket, drug store, restaurant and retail shop. In the resort town of Bar Harbor, Maine, they are given out at every street corner. So I was surprised to read the following news story this morning at the Huffington Post. It is printed below verbatim, augmented by my words in red to clarify it.

WASHINGTON — The Biden White House is considering the ridiculous plan of sending masks directly to American households, according to three people familiar with the discussions who are embarrassed to give their names, an action the Trump administration explored but scrapped because they recognized immediately how stupid it was. The Biden Covid-19 Response Team is evaluating the logistics of mailing out millions of face coverings at a phenomenal cost in the multi-millions that would be a total waste of money, but no decision has been made. The moronic proposal hasn't yet reached President Joe Biden for final approval, another anonymous White House official supposedly said.