No Mask, No Problem

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So you don’t want to wear a mask. You don’t like masks, you don’t think masks are needed. You don’t wanna wear one, so you won’t.

You feel like you just can’t breathe in a mask, and you’re afraid you’ll faint dead away, right? And, oh my gosh, the smell of your own breath coming back into your poor nose. Yucky.

You refuse to wear a mask. I mean, this is America, after all. You’re a citizen, you have rights. You don’t want to be told what to do by the damn government. This isn’t freakin’ Russia, is it?

Masks should be your choice. If you don’t want to wear one, don’t!

I’m absolutely cool with your right to choose.

And I assume you’ll be fine with my right to choose some other things for myself. For example, I really, really love my cigarettes. I know, I know, they’re bad for me, but hey! This is America! I get to choose!

And I choose to smoke my unfiltered cigarettes in an elevator. With YOU!! In fact, I choose to smoke them while we’re sitting elbow to elbow on a flight across the Atlantic, too. I know you’ll be totally cool with it, because FREEDOM!!!

This whole personal freedom idea is actually fairly compelling. I’ve never really thought about it before, but now I realize that life will be way easier for me if I do whatever the hell I want no matter the…