Dear Jon Wildermuth,
I loved your report "Face masks join front line of national political battle," which I read this morning and was just telling an Arizona friend about.
Not so funny was the security guard in Flint, Michigan being shot to death in a dispute over face masks--or workers in stores threatened when the tried to enforce the mask requirements in Oklahoma--leading to their dropping the mask requirements!
We now know that it's government mandates--not Covid 19--that people are arming against.
But some parts really sounded like a Borowitz Report, they were so funny. Trump's getting a framed N95 mask from the CEO at the company's mask plant in Phoenix, where neither of them is wearing a mask!
Favorite quotes:
Trump: "It's a recommendation. They recommend it. I just don't want to wear one myself."
Good that Melania is wearing one and recommending it.
Good that Pence came through after going barefaced to the Mayo Clinic! Why did they permit that? I think it's collusion.
Yes, as you say "No Republican wants to be wearing a mask while walking behind a president who is barefaced."
But the best part of all were the stated reasons for not wearing a mask:
Trump says he's regularly tested for the coronavirus.
Rand Paul says that since he tested positive in March, he's now immune.
And Ohio state representative Nino Vitale comes up with the best reason of all: Because "we're all created in the image and likeness of God...I won't wear a mask."
I'm not going to make any snide remarks like "May he meet his maker, unmasked."
But I do want to thank you for this very engaging report!
Your reader,
Tina Martin
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