At one point, I was leaning to the side of personal freedom and not wearing a mask. Though I fully understood the science behind it, my inner urges for individual rights pushed me that way. I have come to change my thinking on this. Don't get me wrong, I still hate wearing my face mask. It's hot and humid here and wearing the mask sucks. I feel stupid wearing one. I think it's overkill. But it's the logical thing to do.
1. Not everything the government tells you to do is bad. This has become the attitude of many. It doesn't matter what it is, if the government says to do it, we just don't want to do it. I get it. The government has given us good reason to feel this way. The government tells us to do lots of dumb things and makes lots of dumb changes (here's looking at you gas cans). We get programmed to think those in the government don't know anything, and that is largely the case. Our instinct is to want to do the opposite of what they tell us to do. However, this isn't one of those things. My state government forces me to carry car insurance, but car insurance is a good thing. I'm not going to refuse to do a good and sensible thing just because government said I should do it. That would be shallow thinking.
2. If you REALLY want things to get back to normal: wear a mask. We can preach all we want about the low mortality rate of this virus and how things have been overblown. However, the simple reality is that things will not go back to normal until the infection numbers are way down. Wearing masks facilitates accomplishing that goal. It's a pointless waste of time to argue on the one hand that we need to just get back to normal while on the other refusing to wear a mask. It's a total waste of breath. If you REALLY want college football back this fall, wear a mask. Simple as that.
3. Fauci lied, so what? I doubt I'm the only one suffering from Fauci fatigue. The revelation that he lied about the need for face masks in order to keep them from suffering the same fate as toilet paper was the least surprising bit of news I've ever heard. He's a bureaucrat. None of that changes the science behind wearing face masks. I don't really care what Fauci says. I certainly am not wearing a face mask because he says I should; I do it because it makes sense.
4. It really is a small thing. Here, we come to WWII. Back in WWII, Americans made all kinds of sacrifices for the war effort. Many items and good were rationed. People voluntarily participated in blackout drills. It was a huge effort and no arms had to be twisted. People lined up to offer their help in any small way they could. People were proud to give up certain goods in the sake of the war effort. Ration books were given out with stamps that could be used to buy a variety of items like sugar, meat, canned goods, etc (can you imagine doing that today?!?!). Wearing a face mask PALES in comparison to that kind of sacrifice. This ties back into #2. Again, you may think this is all unnecessary for a virus with a low mortality rate, but it's the way back to normalcy. If wearing face masks is all we have to do to really snuff this virus out, then why wouldn't we all do it?
1. Not everything the government tells you to do is bad. This has become the attitude of many. It doesn't matter what it is, if the government says to do it, we just don't want to do it. I get it. The government has given us good reason to feel this way. The government tells us to do lots of dumb things and makes lots of dumb changes (here's looking at you gas cans). We get programmed to think those in the government don't know anything, and that is largely the case. Our instinct is to want to do the opposite of what they tell us to do. However, this isn't one of those things. My state government forces me to carry car insurance, but car insurance is a good thing. I'm not going to refuse to do a good and sensible thing just because government said I should do it. That would be shallow thinking.
2. If you REALLY want things to get back to normal: wear a mask. We can preach all we want about the low mortality rate of this virus and how things have been overblown. However, the simple reality is that things will not go back to normal until the infection numbers are way down. Wearing masks facilitates accomplishing that goal. It's a pointless waste of time to argue on the one hand that we need to just get back to normal while on the other refusing to wear a mask. It's a total waste of breath. If you REALLY want college football back this fall, wear a mask. Simple as that.
3. Fauci lied, so what? I doubt I'm the only one suffering from Fauci fatigue. The revelation that he lied about the need for face masks in order to keep them from suffering the same fate as toilet paper was the least surprising bit of news I've ever heard. He's a bureaucrat. None of that changes the science behind wearing face masks. I don't really care what Fauci says. I certainly am not wearing a face mask because he says I should; I do it because it makes sense.
4. It really is a small thing. Here, we come to WWII. Back in WWII, Americans made all kinds of sacrifices for the war effort. Many items and good were rationed. People voluntarily participated in blackout drills. It was a huge effort and no arms had to be twisted. People lined up to offer their help in any small way they could. People were proud to give up certain goods in the sake of the war effort. Ration books were given out with stamps that could be used to buy a variety of items like sugar, meat, canned goods, etc (can you imagine doing that today?!?!). Wearing a face mask PALES in comparison to that kind of sacrifice. This ties back into #2. Again, you may think this is all unnecessary for a virus with a low mortality rate, but it's the way back to normalcy. If wearing face masks is all we have to do to really snuff this virus out, then why wouldn't we all do it?