Wearing A Mask Is Only As Hard As Getting Used To Wearing A Mask

Wearing a mask to the store is only as hard as getting used to wearing a mask to the store, etc.

It’s about the smallest sacrifice we can think of. And really not much different than wearing clothes, or wearing a seat belt.

In fact, seat belts are much more of an imposition because they’re the law. Forever. Talk about taking away your freedoms. And seat belts really only protect you, not the other driver. Yet you don’t see crowds of armed angry people storming governors’ offices fighting a seat belt ticket.

So how did wearing a mask get caught up in disputes about freedom and wanting to open the country when it really has nothing to do with either, and stands in the way of neither? You can very easily wear a mask and go out in public and want the economy open again.

Yet masks got co-opted, and everything got conflated somehow.

Not somehow, we know how. President Trump. 100%. And his flat refusal to wear a mask in public. (As we’ve said before, for him we don’t think it’s any more complicated than he’s worried his spray tan would come off on it and he’d look silly.)

Trump came up with a lot more reasons for not wearing a mast Thursday, when he…