CHRIS THURMAN: Can we trump the great unmasked with Covid aesthetics?

BL PREMIUMSome of the more curious forms of human behaviour on display around the world over the last few months have been linked to the so-called “debate” about the wearing of masks. In SA, as in Covid-19 epicentres such as the US and the UK, we have our anti-mask lobbyists.

A generous view of non-mask wearers is that they confuse the intention of wearing a mask to protect oneself with that of wearing a mask to protect others from oneself. But this isn’t just stupidity; it is also the death drive writ large as a political world view. A sarcastic quip from a Facebook friend of mine is apposite: “I hadn’t previously realised that ‘I...

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