director rochelle lidsky is on the defense after the agency told people who are fully vaccinated against covert 19 if they can go without a mask the c.d.c. recommendation comes at an odd time considering america is nowhere near herd immunity to mask or not to mask that is the question while masking fell along ideological lines from the very start conservative states largely refused to mandate it and those states also have lower vaccination rates but more importantly how do restaurants bars grocery stores and other public spaces know who is vaccinated and who isn't will they be checking for vaccine cards or operating on an honor system these are the primary questions state and local governments are grappling with now wilensky made her sunday morning t.v. rounds with a stop on n.b.c.'s meet the press and had this to say this was not permission to shed masks for everybody everywhere this was really ringback science driven individual assessment of your risk. whoa problem with that statement is for too many americans never saw it as a threat to begin with and the c.d.c. updated guidance could