Atlanta College brings back COVID mask mandates.

An Atlanta college⁣ has reinstated its mask ⁢mandate for 14 days in response to rising cases on campus.

“All students and employees are required to‍ wear face ⁤masks,” ‌Morris Brown College said Monday in an Instagram post. ⁢In addition to wearing ⁢masks, students and staff must​ practice “physical distancing” and refrain from ⁣gathering in large crowds.

“There will be no parties or large student events the next two weeks,” the school wrote.

Some Democrats and left-wing figures have been unable to let ​go of mask mandates since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic—even in the face of evidence that they are unhelpful.

In May, the Washington, D.C., bar planned to require law school graduates to wear masks while taking its 12-hour-long exam.​ It reversed course the day after the Washington Free Beacon publicized its officials’ ‍intentions.

During a ‌ speech on the House floor in June, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) said ⁣that “two-year-olds should have been required to wear masks.” Earlier this month, Kavita Patel, a former Obama administration official, said of masks that it is‍ “time to bring them out again.”

Mask-wearing by the general public “probably makes little or no difference” in the spread of the coronavirus, according to a study of 78 randomized controlled trials conducted in January by the Cochrane Library, a world-renowned medical database.