Mask Mandate Controversy

When someone makes a hurtful and irresponsible statement, it’s easy to dismiss it, but there’s value in analyzing the details.

Every human being can catch and spread a virus. The virus does not discriminate.

The government does not single out certain segments of the population for mask mandates. If they did, that would be alarming, dangerous, and profoundly unfair.

Mask mandates do not apply to people of a particular race, religion, ethnicity, sex, age bracket, income bracket, or sexual orientation. In situations where it’s dangerous not to wear a mask, every citizen is asked to comply with the same set of rules.

Whether or not you comply with mask mandates, whether or not you agree with them in principle, the government is not going to come to your house at night, confiscate your property, and move you and your family into a ghetto or send you to a concentration camp to die.

A public figure recently compared mask mandates for Covid-19 to the Holocaust. By considering the details calmly and rationally as we just have, we can see that this is not an apt comparison at all. It was a hateful and abhorrent statement. The public figure should apologize and should think very hard about what she is going to say.