GOING MASKLESS

 Some things I understand, others I don't.  It is very clear now that if you are out in public without a mask you are doing it on purpose.  You are just itching for someone to make a remark or to ask you to put one on so that you can 1) Yell invective at them, 2) Spout your conspiracy theory, or 3) Actually assault them.  In the latter case, it is my opinion that if you go into a retail establishment without a mask and are carrying a gun, and get into an argument and kill someone, you should be charged with first-degree murder.

I understand employees who are tasked with the unpleasant duty of enforcing the mask requirement, and I'm sorry it is so onerous.  What I don't understand are folks who gratuitously accost the miscreant.  They have got to know it will lead to push-back, and probably an altercation.  This is a misplaced sense of justice.  There have always been a few such folks but recently it is becoming all too common and accomplishes nothing positive.

I am trying not to stereotype those who don't wear a mask, but it is very difficult.  For instance, if you don't wear a mask you apparently don't believe the seriousness of the illness or you don't think you will succumb to it. And you obviously give no thought to infecting others.  In order to hold this belief, you have got to be listening to far right commentators, or in the case of Fox, half-truth commentators.    You are an advocate that anything that Trump doesn't like is fake news, or fake science.  Even Van Horn, Texas, with a population of 1,902 has 17 cases and 2 deaths.  I've been to Van Horn, how did the virus find it?? 

So here is my advice: Wear your mask, don't go on Mask-Patrol, avoid those who won't wear a mask and treat them like the pariah they are.