Today's MOZEN: WWJD?

Photo: Karen Ellis

Lately, I find myself battling with those selfish individuals who obstinately refuse to wear a mask over their noses and mouths in public for the duration of this terrible pandemic.

Despite the overwhelming evidence presented by the scientific, research, and medical communities confirming that by doing so we can significantly reduce the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 virus, they find many lame excuses not to do so. These include:

- Wearing one is more dangerous than the virus itself.
- It infringes on their rights as Americans, therefore it is unconstitutional.
- And, perhaps, the weakest of all - god made us in his own image, therefore wearing one is a sin against god.

- Science clearly refutes the first claim.
- No where does the Constitution state that your right to do something you simply want trumps another's to prevent that action if it directly causes them harm, handles the second. It's as if their stubborn resistance to basic logic, common sense, and simple human compassion make them even more American.
- And, for the last, often heralded by Evangelical Christians, I offer them these questions: If there was even a chance, just a chance, that by wearing a mask you could save ONE life, even a stranger's life, would you do it? What would Jesus do (WWJD)?

The response is usually crickets, i.e. total silence.

Friends, there is nothing like trapping the clueless by using their own misguided, nonsensical dogma to refute their arguments. Unfortunately, because they are so blinded by their ideology, it falls on deaf ears. But, we can take heart as they will be judged by providence in the end (nod, nod, wink, wink). I just hope that they get there before their selfish, limiting doctrine gets me first.

And, yes, Jesus would wear the goddamned mask!!

That is all . . .