Is wearing a mask a political statement or an intelligence test?
Masks have become signifiers of how seriously people take the pandemic and the advice from government officials and medical experts that wearing a mask in public is a simple and effective way to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
If you want to make a political game of it, go ahead. But be warned: The masks are winning that fight.
Science trumps ideology on this one.
The number of Texans hospitalized for COVID-19 has set records for ten days in a row. The number of deaths attributed to the pandemic in Texas has crossed the 2,000 marks. The number of coronavirus cases to date is closing in on 100,000 and is heading in that direction at an increasing rate of speed.
More people are out and about. Their interactions — whether for work, for shopping, dining, drinking, demonstrating, you name it — give the virus more opportunities to spread. And the numbers show it, whatever your politics. This is getting worse, and the easiest way to slow it down, short of closing everything down again, is for more Texans to do the simple things: distance, handwashing, and masks.
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