Wear the Mask! Wear the Mask!
Why was this so much easier in 1918? (Georgia Tech game, 1918, courtesy of Andy McNeil)
W.J. Astore
I keep seeing headlines like this one from Alternet today: Trump ‘patriots’ ready to die for freedom shout down county commissioners because they don’t want to wear face masks.
How do you convince such "patriots" that wearing a face mask is not an assault on their freedom?
Perhaps by telling them that the Covid virus is much like those bad people invading us from the south. You know: those "rapists" and "killers" and other viral elements poring through our border, as Trump warned us about in his first speech as a candidate in 2015. A "threat" we can stop with a chant: "Build the wall! Build the wall!"
Think of all those Covid viral droplets as unwanted and dangerous invaders -- but we can stop them before they ruin America. How? Wear the mask! Wear the mask!
Just think of the mask as a wall between you and the bad people out to ruin America. There -- don't you feel like a patriot now, wearing your "wall" mask? You can even get masks with American flags on them. Wear with pride!