Show you are smart and wear a mask! COVID19 is a contagious virus!

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Enough! I’ve had it with the stupid “I ain't wearing no mask” crowd.

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Incredulously, there is a segment of American misguided society that – even this long and deep into the still-raging modern-day plague known as COVID-19 – continues to doggedly, zealously, tenaciously and persistently remain *stuck on stupid*.

I’m talking about that segment of society that – despite knowing COVID-19 is a killer virus that’s respiratory based — continues to declare, “I ain’t wearing no mask!” in defiance of the clear evidence that doing so helps to slow spreading the disease.

Yes, that's right. We are talking about those simple-minded buffoons.

I mean, they are stupidly consistent. So, maybe I should grudgingly admire them for being consistently stupid.

Nah. I just can't do it. I just can’t get past the “stuck on stupid” part of it all.

After all, look at some recent facts that you have to consciously continue to dismiss in order to cling to your “I ain’t wearing no mask” stance these days:

Even with the rollout of the vaccines to combat COVID-19, Florida is experiencing a marked spike in new coronavirus cases; on Thursday alone, there were nearly 13,000 new cases across the state and 343 in just Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Now think about that.

If you’re one of the “I ain’t wearing no mask” blockheads out there, you have to hear and see numbers like these and actually respond: “Don't matter to me. I ain’t wearing one!”

More and more Floridians who have contracted COVID-19, and survived — but only after suffering through long periods of both illness and recovery — are sharing their harrowing stories.

And some of them – like 68-year-old John Musto, who spent five weeks in Sarasota Memorial Hospital after getting the virus – are openly begging other Floridians to wear masks to avoid going through what they did. “I want to tell everybody (to wear a mask),” Musto told Herald-Tribune reporter Angie DiMichele.
In fact, from now on, there should only be one proper reply to those who say, “I ain’t wearing no mask!” – and it should only consist of two words: “Wanna bet?”

Opinions Editor Roger Brown