A quick summary of my thoughts:
Don’t be socially irresponsible just to assert your freedom
to NOT wear a mask.
Don’t demand mask-wearing more than it makes sense, just to
signal your virtue.
This is a solid article arguing that quarantining and
requiring masks of everyone is beyond the proper limits of civil
government. It ends with a helpful
reminder to treat kindly those caught in the middle, like store owners or
managers.
I’ve heard the argument from several places recently:
Large scale mask-wearing worked in Japan, so we should do
it, too.
The New York Times has an article on this, which I won’t
link to. Out of principle. To not
promote a mainstream media source that claims to report news, but is actually
an advocacy arm for the Left.
But the National Review agrees!
My rejoinder to this is simple: it’s all about population
density. When everyone is all on top of
each other, as they are in Tokyo, masks ARE more needed and effective to slow
the spread. It made sense for President Trump to wear a mask, visiting a hospital! BUT 85% OF AMERICA, GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING, IS NOT IN THIS
SITUATION.
The NYT links to a scientific study that concludes:
“The evidence is not sufficiently strong to support
widespread use of facemasks as a protective measure against COVID-19. However,
there is enough evidence to support the use of facemasks for short periods of
time by particularly vulnerable individuals when in transient higher risk
situations.”
Another article, sadly published by an evangelical Christian
site, is laughable in its conclusion that America isn’t Christian because we
won’t wear masks.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jaysondbradley/2020/05/how-a-plague-exposed-the-christian-nation-myth/
I grant that it IS selfish and irresponsible IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS not to
wear one. But we should also resist the
bullying and intimidation we are getting from the media and my own state governor, to
wear one all the time anywhere in public.
Why should we resist? Learning to
resist now is a good warmup for when more important demands come from on high, for which we
will also be intimidated.
How is that, you ask?
It’ll go like this:
“You may not say homosexual or transgender behavior is
immoral. That is speech that makes me
feel not safe, so the government can forbid you from saying it.” And suddenly, Biblical truth is criminal, because
it makes someone, anyone, feel unsafe.
This is coming, and it already exists in Canada.
Will we resist THAT?
This is the same logic as mask-wearing: if anyone feels
unsafe because you aren’t wearing a mask, then you are a criminal, subject to misdemeanor
fines. Conservative ideas are no different than a COVID-19 virus, it turns out. Both are dangerous and call for radical steps to eradicate them from society.
The Left is using the same tactic to promote totalitarianism
regarding masks as they have been doing in opposing Biblical values for
decades. This is why conservatives are
suspicious and up in arms, even if they don’t always know why.
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