{"id":2940,"date":"2020-05-24T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2020-05-24T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T12:43:12","slug":"wont-wear-a-face-mask-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/05\/24\/wont-wear-a-face-mask-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWon\u2019t Wear a Face Mask\u201d Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Friends&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an open letter from here in Central Ohio, to all of my \u201cwon\u2019t wear a face mask,\u201d \u201cgoing to church this morning\u201d friends.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are a lot you:&nbsp;&nbsp;I see you in the grocery store, at the restaurant for carryout last night (including the staff) and for sure at the hardware store.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some of you are uncertain, but many are proudly proving that \u201cyou aren\u2019t scared\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And when I read social media, I hear you over and over again.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a litany of reasons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cIt is all a hoax,\u201d says one far-out idea.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Many doctors say facemasks don\u2019t help.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Most people who get the virus won\u2019t have a problem, or at least they will survive.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>And the final reason, more people will be hurt by the economic disaster than are by the virus.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All I can say to all of you is I truly hope you are right.&nbsp;&nbsp;You better be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Decision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You see, you\u2019ve decided this for all of us.&nbsp;&nbsp;The reason that we didn\u2019t have the \u201ccurve\u201d at the beginning, overwhelming our hospitals with thousands more, is that we shut down.&nbsp;&nbsp;You could hear it on Broad street two hundred feet from my house.&nbsp;&nbsp;On a normal morning, about six, there\u2019s lots of traffic, people heading to work.&nbsp;&nbsp;But in the shut down, six in the morning sounded like four in the morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were only a few cars headed into town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You could see it at the grocery store, where folks quickly got what they needed and got out.&nbsp;&nbsp;And you could see it on the side streets, where the only traffic was the Amazon vans silently slipping in and out of driveways, providing \u201ceverything needed\u201d for sheltering at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s all done now.&nbsp;&nbsp;When you wander around our small town, it\u2019s getting right back to \u201cnormal\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Traffic is back up on Broad street.&nbsp;&nbsp;Folks are acting like \u201cwe won\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And today the President has \u201cordered\u201d that churches, synagogues and (he could hardly say it) mosques should be open.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s his first \u201cnational\u201d command, and he probably doesn\u2019t have the authority to do it.&nbsp;&nbsp;But that doesn&#8217;t really matter; he\u2019s told the country it\u2019s OK.&nbsp;&nbsp;OK to gather in groups, OK to sing together in a room, OK to share the Eucharist.&nbsp;&nbsp;The President wants us back in our pews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Science<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In a progressively smaller voice, the leading epidemiologists have said:&nbsp;&nbsp;the virus is still here.&nbsp;&nbsp;We only stopped if by stopping transmission, but it hasn\u2019t \u201cgone away\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;If we go back to \u201cnormal\u201d we will be right back in February and early March.&nbsp;&nbsp;But that\u2019s not what people want to hear, and it\u2019s certainly not what the President wants us to do.&nbsp;&nbsp;No, we\u2019ve done \u201cour duty\u201d in March and April; we\u2019ve made our \u201csacrifice\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s time to get back to work, to life, to normal.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to swimming pools and Little League, back to bars and restaurants.\u00a0\u00a0Hell, Disney World is going to reopen soon.\u00a0\u00a0But none of this is based on \u201cscience\u201d; it\u2019s all based on a whole lot of wishing and hoping and \u201cwhat it should be\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you\u2019re right:&nbsp;&nbsp;I hope all of this was a hoax.&nbsp;&nbsp;Except for those 100,000 dead and probably a whole lot more.&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ve been playing fast and loose with the numbers; figures make Presidents and Governors look bad. 100,000 or more are dead in less than three months.&nbsp;&nbsp;And that was with all of the protections and protocols that we had in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope your right, that facemasks won\u2019t make a difference.&nbsp;&nbsp;Because even if they did, they won\u2019t when you aren\u2019t wearing them.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are those who say, \u201cWell, if you\u2019re scared, wear it, but don&#8217;t make me wear one\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, of course, if they work at all, they work by preventing transmission, not reception.&nbsp;&nbsp;Put simply, it keeps an infected person from spreading the virus, not a non-infected person from getting it.&nbsp;&nbsp;One person with a facemask isn&#8217;t protected.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s all of the unknowingly infected people wearing them that prevent the spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I, truly, hope you are right that religious places opening to actual services won\u2019t spread the virus.&nbsp;&nbsp;Because that is really an awful thought:&nbsp;&nbsp;folks go to commune with their fellow man and God, only to be struck down by a virus they could have avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your Choice, Not Mine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like a man driving back from work late on a Friday night.&nbsp;&nbsp;You know that out there, on the roads, there are people driving home from the bar.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some are far too drunk to drive, but they\u2019ve made the choice to \u201cmake it home\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;They\u2019ve chosen for themselves, but when they swerve into your lane, they\u2019ve made that choice for you too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, my mask-less, church going friends, I hope you are right.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you\u2019re not, then we are going to go through so much more tragedy than we\u2019ve already seen, and so many more are going to die needlessly.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I know, it\u2019s your rights.&nbsp;&nbsp;And I know that you are so sure you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Friends&nbsp; 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