Science Over Snake Oil

Wearing a mask is such an effortless task to help your neighbor, community, and country.

If your grandparents—as home front citizens—could ration goods, practice air-raid drills, and participate in blackouts for *four* years during WWII, you can wear a goddamn mask. They also didn't need to see Nazis goose-stepping down Main Street USA to know that they were real. They saw the evidence; they saw people they love go to the frontline; they rightfully believed the threat. Were they all just suckers? Were they sheep, sufferers of tyranny, and believers in fake news for being proactive in protecting their communities?

(It's worth noting that in just 10 months, COVID-19 has already racked up half the American body count of the *totality* of WWII.)

Serve your country. Be a neighbor. Wear a mask.

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