Planes, Pains, & Automobiles

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The woman at the check in desk at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Sacramento was wearing a mask. She wasn’t the only person I saw in Sacramento still wearing a mask; the woman at the Grocery Outlet who fingered no less than a dozen oranges before finally settling on one. The couple in the burger joint next door, who sat outside, fully masked, as they waited for their…