Ignaz Semmelweis was resisted in his day as well ... people refuse wisdom quite often, and love folly. HOWEVER, there is a bigger argument going on and the masks have just fallen into it ... there are people refusing to be governed because they are resisting the overall demographic change coming in the nation determining WHO will rule in a democratic system, within 20-30 years. Some people are convinced that the end of what they consider freedom is at hand, and a mask is one more symbol of the loss of that freedom. Today we still read that as the fear of "liberals" and "Democrats," but the big change coming is "female majority" and "non-white majority" and therefore the inevitability that those who are charge will change and that cultural norms held as superior will be challenged and go into eclipse. Sen. Lindsey Graham burst out in 2015 or 2016 about the country already not having enough "angry old white men" for Republicans to remain competitive into the future, so the cat is out of the bag. The mask bit is just the latest spot for a futile last stand ...
I one hundred percent agree with you and we see it all the time. These past 4 years were a constant outcry to go back to the good old days of white male landowners being in charge.
So sad.
And I do have some concern of what kind of out lashing of those stuck in the fear of change will bring upon all of us...
I would think 13 million sick and 90 Americans dying PER HOUR with NO END IN SIGHT with nearly 300,000 dead is a pretty good indication of how bad it IT IS and could yet get ... the sad irony of the matter is, though, that those who refuse to take precautions will cap their own ability to affect the future. When you fight reality, reality takes you down.
Yup. Super sad. And here we are trying to do our best in the middle of it all. And hoping to survive.