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Mask or no mask - that is the question By Phillip Coffey One need not be of nobility to choose to wear a mask, "Hamlet". There are no questions involving which is more noble. If masks worn prevent another from becoming sick, choose to follow "The Golden Rule". Do not be cynical. Cynics are a dime a dozen. When I saw honorable, very hard working men leaving the trappings of a underground mine site from a 28 inch Blue Gem coal opening after his shift long ago totally covered with blackness, should I look in dismay and respond, "Why are you wearing that mask, do you not know you should not permit the Government to put intrusions upon you conflicting with your individual liberties? I dare say they make you feel uncomfortable by taking those drastic steps." At 22 years old, I was chosen along with another to remove a ceiling from a Government building in Danville, Ky. (Originally our Capitol was in Danville). Confident it was there originally because our first Governor, Isaac Shelby, resided in Danville. The building was built as I recall in the 1790s. One hundred and Seventy Five years + of soot and other pathogens that could do bodily harm to me had gathered and exchanged recipes. No masks were required or offered. If given a choice would I have worn it? I don't know. At 22 I had a lot of stubbornness and idiocy in me. Who doesn't? 'When I was a child I thought and spoke childlike.' Now that I have reached the 'over the hill years' I am more cautious. Even Solomon with his great wisdom did a lot of stupid things in his youth. After he got much older he looked back and wrote "Ecclesiastes." Maybe he thought having all those wives and concubines around is a real burden. Don't know. We had Millennia of plagues, diseases and infestations wiping out people in greater numbers than the sword. Superstitions added to the numbers. One of them was killing blacks cats. Rats/mice carried the plague on their mite-ridden bodies. Of course cats kill rats and mice. Thousands of years we did not know anything about bacteria and even worse, virus. Now we do but those little virus critters evolve and they sure are hard to smoother out. Dear Mr. Hamlet, if your fictional spirit was still around, would the questions asked evolve to some other form given there is no nobility in the virus' choices in his quest to harming or destroying another. This story was posted on 2020-07-11 05:11:53
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