Federal officials still wanted to reserve surgical masks and N95 masks for frontline health care workers. States then began introducing requirements that individuals wear face coverings in public.

Most protests are lawful and constitutionally protected. Even more bewildering, he emphasized “NO MASKS!” Since then, Education Secretary Linda McMahon has begun cutting off some funds.

His condition, hypertrichosis—often called “werewolf syndrome”—is so rare that only about 50 cases have ever been recorded since the Middle Ages. With more than 95 per cent of his face covered in hair ...