{"id":43385,"date":"2020-06-30T19:01:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T19:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43385"},"modified":"2020-06-30T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T19:01:46","slug":"face-masks-everyones-wearing-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43385","title":{"rendered":"Face masks … everyone’s wearing ’em!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Given that my wife and I don’t get out much these days — that worldwide coronavirus pandemic is keeping us close to the house — I am left to comment on fascinating sights I see running routine errands, such as to the grocery store.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I saw today at the supermarket where my wife and I do the bulk of our food shopping: face masks!<\/em> All the store employees are wearing them. Although I didn’t count them all, my best guess is that of the customers who were there, fully 75 percent of them were covering their faces behind masks.<\/p>\n

Why is that a big deal worthy of a comment? We live in Princeton, Texas, which is in Collin County, which borders Dallas County, which is undergoing a surge in COVID-19 infections. Gov. Greg Abbott has shut down bars and ordered restaurants to seat no more than 50 percent of capacity.<\/p>\n

This mask-wearing matter has become a political talking point, if you can believe it. So help me I don’t understand why it has become such, but it has. Those who identify themselves as Republicans are dismissing the masks; those who ID as Democrats are buying into the notion of wearing masks.<\/p>\n

Collin County is at the epicenter of Donald Trump Country. Trump is the nation’s leading Republican and his Trumpkin Corps has bought into the hare-brained notion that face masks aren’t as critical to preventing the spread of COVID-19 as others — such as medical doctors<\/em> — say they are.<\/p>\n

I know this is purely anecdotal, but based on what I witnessed at the supermarket today, even those who live in Trump Country are adhering more to the advice of medical experts than to the yammering of GOP politicians.<\/p>\n

That is my idea of good news.<\/p>\n\n

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