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I Hate Wearing the Mask
I would never not wear it, but I am a sweaty man with glasses and a hearing aid, and this sucks
I began this pandemic as a mask truther. I told my wife and kids that we didn’t need to wear masks because I saw a headline somewhere that said the use of masks among the general population would be of minimal help. (I did not read the full article.) I also told my daughter in February that the coronavirus was no big deal and would be snuffed out before we ever had to worry about it. Thus, I am the leading purveyor of fake news in my own home.
Anyway, the virus is now eating the country whole and it turns out that wearing a mask is a rather crucial element of keeping it contained. Will this stop Georgia Governor Brian Kemp from allowing his constituents to hold wet T-shirt contests out in the open just to stick it to them Demmycrats? No. But for the few sane Americans left, like me, wearing a mask is the right move. So that’s what I do now when I have to make the occasional sortie to the grocery store to secure vital goods such as toilet paper, flour, and salami.
I hate wearing a mask. I’ll keep wearing one, of course. You’d be a complete shitbag not to, and you’d be defying vital government mandates in a lot of states. But that doesn’t mean I gotta ENJOY it…
