{"id":3165,"date":"2020-07-08T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:01:21","slug":"dont-want-to-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"Don’t want to mask?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

This is how a Republican shows he is morally bankrupt:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMask-wearing has become a totem, a secular religious symbol,\u201d one Republican strategist told\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>. \u201cChristians wear crosses, Muslims wear a hijab, and members of the Church of Secular Science bow to the Gods of Data by wearing a mask as their symbol, demonstrating that they are the elite; smarter, more rational, and morally superior to everyone else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only does this \u201cRepublican strategist\u201d denigrate religion, by comparing the wearing of a COVID mask to a Christian Cross or Muslim hijab and, one assumes, also a Star of David; he (I just think women are smarter than this) misrepresents the reason why most of us who wear masks do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s make this personal. He claims I belong to \u201cthe Church of Secular Science\u201d without a clue as to my faith or affiliation. Then, claiming I \u201cbow to the Gods of Data\u201d proves he does not believe in science nor in data. In other words, he prefers ignorance and being uninformed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then Republican Strategist claims I wear a mask to show I am \u201cthe elite; smarter, more rational, and morally superior to everyone else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is utter bullshit, but similar bullshit pours from the mouths of other Republicans eager to reflect the ugliness of Trump, giving us a pandemic of president pandering. I am sick and tired of this divisiveness, of men like this spreading lies about what I think, about what I think about my neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n

So let me clear this up. Here are the reasons I wear a COVID mask:<\/p>\n

I wear a mask to save American lives, maybe of a loved one, maybe my own, and maybe yours. I wear a mask to save my business, which depends on healthy customers. I wear a mask because I am a citizen of the United States who shares the air with my fellow Americans when we are out together trying to feed our families.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not socialism, nor dictatorship, nor about being superior. It\u2019s just good citizenship based on good medical advice. Got that?<\/span><\/p>\n

To the Republican Strategist who demeaned me, my faith, the various faiths of my fellow citizens, my integrity, and my morals, I extend this invitation: Take your greasy, manipulative lies about me and my intentions, wrap them in the COVID mask you obviously don\u2019t use for its intended purpose, and shove the whole wad up your ass.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your flatulent ethics are poisoning America.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Photo by NYT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

This is how a Republican shows he is morally bankrupt:<\/p>\n

\u201cMask-wearing has become a totem, a secular religious symbol,\u201d one Republican strategist told\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>. \u201cChristians wear crosses, Muslims wear a hijab, and members of the Church of Secular Science bow to the Gods of Data by wearing a mask as their symbol, demonstrating that they are the elite; smarter, more rational, and \u2026 Read more\u2026 → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[652,637,677,151,433],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-masks","tag-politics","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-P3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}