Unmasking Anti-Maskism

Understanding and hope via a playwright’s character study

Watercolor by Author: Gift of Consideration

My first impulse in the beginning of pandemic life was that mask-wearing was silly, that if you are compelled to wear a mask, you think of yourself as sick, so you should stay home. I have a niece in Vietnam who wrote about her experience there and that mask-wearing was an important part of their pandemic control strategy. I…