Received by The Corvallis Gazette Times June 6, 2020
Printed and posted June 16, 2020
July 1, 2020
Because of a reversal of all trends related to Covid 19, Oregon governor Kate Brown mandated masks in public for all. No exceptions. By my reckoning, just in time, because masks had grown conspicuously absent at a rate similar to Oregon's Covid statistics.
Oregon per Johns Hopkins University
The simplest precaution has morphed into a libertarian cause célèbre. At the grocer's just last Monday, many, many went maskless, evidently beating the drum for so-called liberty. P.T. Barnum somewhere smugly smiles.
What has he got to lose?
Oregon per Johns Hopkins University
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Per The New York Times
The simplest precaution has morphed into a libertarian cause célèbre. At the grocer's just last Monday, many, many went maskless, evidently beating the drum for so-called liberty. P.T. Barnum somewhere smugly smiles.
What has he got to lose?
