Reason and Logic are two tools of a mature society. Sometimes, one exceeds the other in a given moment of time. Due to COVID-19’s diminutive size, use of fabric to prevent transmission was once considered to be “catching a fly with a barbed-wire fence”. This logic is often used by anti-mask individuals. Even if this analogy remains true, epidemiological evidence has shown that wearing a face covering greatly reduces the rate of transmission. The two people I know who recovered from COVID-19 had contracted the virus at Texas bars. These venues are characterized by casual contact, loosened inhibitions, and no face masks. On the larger scale, one could compare Black Lives Matter protests against a biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. Both types of events consisted of large, working-class crowds who had a significant risk of workplace exposure to the virus. Despite public concerns, the former events did not create a statistical spike in COVID-19 cases- mask-wearing was prevalent. The latter became a super-spreading event- mask-wearing was rare. It is a reasonable assumption that mask-wearing helps prevent the transmission of coronavirus.
Faith in God,
humanity, and so forth, has given way to great cynicism. In the late Middle
Ages, farmers in Europe rotated their crops and used fertilizer for at least three
centuries before a scientific explanation of soil nutrition was given. Good
results meant that the practice spread beyond a renegade farmer’s field. And as
those farmers rotated their crops, so let us have faith in masking up.
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