November 14, 2020
An article in today’s Post-Dispatch is talking about why rural residents in Missouri don’t think that wearing masks during the pandemic is necessary. It quotes a woman from Cuba, Missouri saying, “I am 89 years old. I am going to die of something at some point.”
And I’m thinking, “That’s great. But if you get sick, are you going to refuse medical treatment so that you don’t divert resources from people who actually took steps to slow the pandemic but got sick anyway?”
Her name is in the article. Maybe
hospitals can flag it so that, if she gets sick enough to need treatment, they
can make sure she puts her money where her mouth is, and be told to stay home.
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