Better late than never? It only came about 1,000 days late, but Biden’s federal mask mandates were finally lifted last week.

Some federal facilities imposed mandatory masking as recently as January based on a standing Biden order that triggered a mandate whenever some arbitrary CDC metric was exceeded (usually due to a data error) in a given county. The administration was still appealing the decision that struck down its airplane/mass transit mandate.

We join our friend Jay Bhattacharya in saluting the brave judge who ended mandatory masks on airplanes two years before Old Joe finally gave up: