“By the way, the WWII vets did not wear masks. They’re men, not cowards. Masks=enforced cowardice.” So tweeted Rusty Reno, editor of First Things, in mid-May, giving voice to how some Americans have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown. As one spring breaker famously said, “If I get corona, I get corona.” To some, masking up, locking down, and hiding from the invisible virus feels wrong. To the spring breaker, a life in which risk-avoidance trumps joie de vivre is not worth living. To Reno, it is simply cowardice. Life is always risky, Reno seems to be saying, do you want to live your life in a sanitarium? Man up and live life.
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