The word I think I’m looking for is “idiotic.” Of course, no one looks cool wearing a mask. Well, exceptions made for Batman and the Lone Ranger. but you get my point. A mask is reasoned, rational, choice with which you try to protect your health as best you can. It is not a God Damn fashion statement. Period.
But my point is that I worry about the American people, and particularly Americans who support Donald Trump and bash mask wearers and claim that Covid-19 is hoax and all the rest of it. They are endangering themselves, and everyone else...
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And they are doing so using most adolescent language possible. They sound and act like the bullies and Big Men/Women On Campus I knew in Junior High. And, like the bullies I knew in Junior High, their behavior (like smoking, “up with your rules”) may serve them well in the short run, but quite possibly kill them in the long.
In other words...
Dear God, what happened to Americans? When did we abandon all signs of maturity and adulthood?
Source: Fox News' Brit Hume Face-Mask Shames Joe Biden; Twitter Goes Bonkers by Mary Papenfuss, https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/brit-hume-joe-biden-trump-face-mask-shaming-032451198.html
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