Wearing or not wearing masks has become a political act, writes ed_kilgore writes
Many MAGA folk think masks are just too politically correct. Photo: Sergio Flores/Getty Images In early April, I did some essential shopping at a chain pharmacy in the exurban Georgia town where I have been more or less confined for over a month, thanks to family exposure to COVID-19. I was standing near the door, having already checked out, waiting for my wife to finish her shopping. We were both wearing surgical masks, having been assured that local medical personnel didn’t need them.
Even as governors, mayors and the federal government urge or require Americans to wear masks in stores, transit systems and other public spaces to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the nation is divided about whether to comply. And it is divided in painfully familiar ways — by politics and by attitudes about government power and individual choice.
For Trump’s supporters, declining to wear a mask is a visible way to demonstrate “that ‘I’m a Republican,’ or ‘I want businesses to start up again,’ or ‘I support the president,’ ” said Robert Kahn, a law professor at the University of St.
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