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MADDOW: "It is an amazing thing. I mean, I will just tell you, at a personal level — I'm sorry for speaking of all that in such personal terms with Dr. Walensky, but when I was talking to people today about this new guidance and what to ask her, everybody had very personal feelings about it and I realized I did too, and all these questions. Part of it is that I feel like I’ll have to rewire myself so that when I see somebody out in the world who is not wearing a mask, I don’t instantly think, 'You are a threat,' or 'You are selfish,' or 'You’re a Covid denier and you definitely haven’t been vaccinated.' We’re going to have to rewire the way that we look at each other, because the CDC's guidance, which she just told me, we are sure, is that if you’re vaccinated, you don’t need to wear a mask except in very specific circumstances. So that means, as we change that as a country, we’re going to look at each other differently and have to un-wire our preconceptions about what a mask or a lack of a mask means.”