> It boggles my mind why there is pushback on mandating kids to wear masks in schools. It doesn't really boggle my mind, it's just that the conclusions it sugg

> It boggles my mind why there is pushback on mandating kids to wear masks in schools. It doesn't really boggle my mind, it's just that the conclusions it suggests about fellow Americans are really hard to swallow. There is a lot of political polarization in the US and cranking through the implications and reasons for ostensibly pro-COVID policies and attitudes is really disheartening. It's a schism that isn't healed easily. If anything, an impersonal virus, an implacable, impossible-to-anthropomorphize, zero-upside health hazard could have easily been something for the entire world to unite against. Instead, we got more and deeper division and louder and more extreme and more destructive arguments. And we lost a lot of people and maimed even more. And the reason that couldn't happen: Money. The economy. Me. Freedumbs! COVID exposed people's real priorities and objectives and showed how craven and myopic our political leaders really are.