If Your Time is short Bills introduced in Congress since 2018 banning protesters from wearing masks have stalled or failed. Many states have decades-old mask bans designed to thwart the Ku Klux Klan.

"From the people who mandated mask wearing for years in America. It's absurd. They need to back off of ICE and respect our agents and stop protesting against them," Johnson said.

Murray however cautioned the data is incomplete on whether mask wearing is an effective replacement for social distancing. “That is where we don’t have an exact answer,” Murray said.

"I never made the claim that Biden’s face is a synthetic mask. In a social media post I asked IF he was wearing a mask. I specifically asked what others thought," she wrote.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is reviving her push to restrict the wearing of masks in public, urging lawmakers in state budget talks to bring back some form of a previous ban, Gothamist has learned.