Masking Our Fears

Like a lucky rabbit’s foot, your mask protects you, just not the way you think

Remember, at the beginning of the pandemic, when government officials were telling everybody not to buy masks? Toilet paper you could stock up on, but masks were needed for medical personnel. So our health authorities told the public that we didn’t really need them.

Besides, as certain pundits pointed out, non-medical people didn’t really know how to wea…