“I noticed when I shop that about half of the people are wearing masks. There is a real unfriendliness about it... kind of like we view each other as enemies.”
You’re right. With masks, we become freakish non-people.
From the current issue of “Imprimis” from Hillsdale College:
“it is offensive when any member of our government, expert or not, addresses us chiefly as carriers of a pathogen”
How do you tell the difference between people wearing a mask? For example, how about someone who is recommended to wear a mask because of going through chemo?
Are they non-people? Obviously, not everyone wearing a mask is going through chemo. But some of the broad brush statements about masks is pretty disappointing.
People will wear a mask for a variety of reasons. The best hope is that people make a decision on to wear/not wear a mask after doing some research. Once they make that decision, people should just carry on.