Opinion
Masks are a symbol of the lost COVID-19 fight
The last maskers, whether there is any medical basis or only a kind of bitter clinging (as Obama once said in another context) to their choice, are living emblems of our most recent lost war.
Blake SmithSome Americans still wear face masks – to do what exactly? To prevent the spread of COVID-19? To signal their continuing vigilance amid growing public unconcern? As a now permanent part of their hygienic habitus?
Over the past three years, I have tried to avoid thinking about the particular motivations and reasonings that lead people around me to their various positions on masks, vaccines, and other health measures. Not least because those people were often so eager to explain themselves and attack others.
Foreign Policy
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