A mask mandate in Missouri’s St. Louis County has been overturned just one day after it went into effect. A county council meeting voted 5-2 on Tuesday evening to repeal the mandate that would have required masks to be worn in indoor public settings regardless of vaccination status. “Too many American men and women have given the last full measure of devotion for us to be cavalier with the very liberty they fought and died to provide,” said Councilman Ernie Trakas, reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I will not abide any measures that seek to compromise or erode our liberty and freedom.” The mandate was announced by county executive Sam Page and St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones amid a surge in cases of the highly contagious Delta COVID-19 variant. The strain was first identified in India late last year and currently makes up approximately 83 percent of all new sequenced …