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Those who advocate anti-masking, in word or deed, are engaged in an essentially selfish and decidedly anti-social endeavor that says to the world, plain and simple, “my concerns are so important that the concerns of others do not matter to me.”

The same can be said, for the same reason, about people who subscribe to the anti-vaxxing agenda. Vaccination campaigns are most effective the more people participate in them. Anyone who doubts this need only look to the success of the mass application of the polio vaccine to school children in the middle of the 20^th century, credited for the almost total elimination of that disease.

Vaccines are designed for the common good; those who eschew them are saying, once again, that their concerns supersede the concerns of their friends and neighbors—a decidedly un-neighborly position to take, and one that, if held by a sufficient number of people, can only work to subvert the effectiveness of vaccines in stopping the spread of Covid-19.

If and when we reach that point, the real question will likely be “when do the needs of the many override the needs of the few?”

With regard to masking, we really should be asking that question now. Perhaps a re-examination of the idea behind the law of “eminent domain” is in order.

Tim Konrad

December 7, 2020

We must never forget Pearl Harbor!