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Yvonne Abraham: Facing up to the maskless
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We’re increasingly told it’s a bad idea to judge and shame those who flout the health guidelines that could protect us all, that stigmatizing them makes it less likely those who test positive will inform their contacts and go into isolation. All of that makes it harder to control the pandemic, according to experts.
Fair enough, but we’re not dealing here only with well-meaning people with pandemic fatigue, or folks who are trying to be careful but slipping up occasionally: A chunk of those flouting mask-wearing and other recommendations are doing it deliberately, as a political statement, to own the libs. They’re following the deadly example of Republicans up and down the ticket who built political campaigns around mocking science and good sense as signs of weakness.
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