Brace yourself for a bold admission: I’m a huge anti-masker. They’re hot and scratchy on my face. My chin starts to sweat, and the elastic pulls painfully on my ears. My breath tastes...weird. Worst of all, the constant pressure against my mouth and nose triggers a mixture of claustrophobia and anxiety, a feeling that subsequently seems normal (and therefore even more intense) amidst the sea of blank, expressionless faces around me. The fact that wearing masks is for our mutual protection suggests that there’s a monster behind every mask. This is no way to live.
Unless it’s the only way to live.
Sorting out your morals and motivation can be hard, so here is something that appeals to every person’s basic need for survival and comfort. Anti-maskers, this is especially for you.
As mask-haters, what should we do? The only rational answer is to do the thing (or things) that will make masks unnecessary as soon as possible,
In fact, let’s ride that mask-hatred all the way to a cure or at least some better solution. Fact: masks are the easiest and cheapest way to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, which is one guaranteed way to escape this horror show. If you don’t believe me, ask yourself why the surgeons on Grey’s Anatomy are always wearing a mask when they perform an operation? Why else would they do that?
Once we get the rates of infection, testing and tracing under control, maybe we can revisit the whole mask situation. Let’s hear what the experts have to say at that time. In the meanwhile, wearing that hot scratchy mask is what average people can do to shorten the number of days till they can throw it aside and breathe freely again.
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