If you’re wearing a mask, why would you care what everyone else does? You’re protected, right? Mask-less people aren’t going to infect you as long as you have your mask on, and you with your mask on are not going to infect them, so everything’s fine.
Oh, but it isn’t fine for some people. If they wear a mask, everyone should wear masks. If they get a vaccine, so should everyone. Because, otherwise, these people – taking a page from today’s culture, let’s call them Karens – look ridiculous.
Do the masks really work? Well, there are differing opinions on that, with a fair amount of evidence suggesting that they not only don’t help but might actually make things worse. In which case, the appropriate response might be for elected officials and other busybodies to let free citizens decide for themselves.
Apparently, that’s what the sensible folks at the Wayne County Commission actually did, and everyone was fine with it – except for Patricia Romans.
A county commission clerk, Patricia wanted to wear a mask and did so. But that wasn’t good enough, not for Patricia. She wanted her coworkers to wear masks, too … to do as the Romans did. But most of them apparently didn’t, and some allegedly teased her for her scrupulosity.
Needless to say, she was outraged and, like Karen asking to see the manager, demanded special treatment.
Alas, she didn’t get it and has now filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, seeking reparations for the commission’s failure to enforce the questionably constitutional mask mandate or, in lieu of that, approve her request to work from home. In the meantime, she took three months of unpaid leave – at the end of which, to her surprise, she was fired.
Maybe it’s time to quit coddling the Karens and tell them to get back to being productive.