On Monday, a Florida federal district court judge abruptly ended the nation’s mask mandate for public transit. The mandate ended immediately and was followed, of course, by a wildly viral social media post in which a pilot announced that the mask mandate had just been overturned and his passengers could immediately remove their masks.

Social media fanfare aside, the mask mandate is down but not out. It may be on the ropes, but for a variety of reasons, the knockout punch hasn’t been delivered.