Masking helps prevent getting sick. Most people don’t want to get sick. But for some asinine reason the GOP has gotten the “stupid” virus from their former leader and become as stupid as possible.
Masking can save lives, save suffering, save money but the GOP instead prefers to weaponize the act as a way to separate the faithful from the rest. It’s basically a test: are you willing to die for your party? Are you willing to sacrifice your children? Your parents? Yourself?
Frankly it’s the very litmus test for insanity. If you are demanding that people act in the opposite of their, and society’s best interest you are not leadership material. No general tells their soldiers to take the bullets out of their gun when they go to war. You don’t tell people to remove masks to keep them safe and healthy when there’s a pandemic.
It would be amazing if the GOP were to suddenly grow a conscience, but that’s as unlikely as the former 45th president apologizing to every person he insulted like a resentful, admonished child.
The GOP has entrenched hate in its platform. Be proud, be hateful, be stupid… and with the statistics going the way they are, be dead. Well, ok, I guess that’s one way to solve the problem.