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A Few Words for Those Who Believe Being Asked to Wear a Mask During COVID-19 Infringes Upon Their Freedom
This piece was prompted by a Facebook post from a friend in which she described how she was exposed to the kind of behavior I describe below at her local grocery store, when she went shopping for the first time in a month or two.
One of the most extraordinary things about this time period is seeing people describe being asked to wearing a thin piece of fabric temporarily in some places they pass through as “tyranny” or an infringement upon their liberties. Even to the point of protesting by storming into grocery stores without masks and touching every product in sight and yelling at people and coughing on them.
I’ll get straight to the point.
Why didn’t we hear a peep from many of these folks when Donald Trump banned Muslims from coming here from multiple countries? Why didn’t we hear a peep from them about Trump’s family separation policy? Why didn’t we hear a peep from them when it was revealed that children in cages were changing each other’s diapers? Why didn’t we hear a peep from them when the Trump administration implemented its Remain in Mexico policy, which places asylum seekers in danger of death, torture or other forms of persecution? Why didn’t we hear a peep from them when Trump banned transgender people…
