Republicans are buying guns in response to COVID-19, but they won't wear masks. What?
Sometime around 845 BCE, a general named Naaman commanded armies in Syria. He was routinely victorious.
But he also had leprosy. In the Bible story, he gets a simple treatment plan: Bathe seven times in the Jordan River. Bah. Routine hygiene! Naaman storms off. He wanted heroics. He’d rather die than bathe.
Back in February, Gabrielle Blair, a designer, parenting blogger and devout Mormon, wrote a compelling Twitter thread inspired by Naaman. She was perplexed by the professed willingness of tough Republicans to go to any lengths to protect their families, where “any lengths” always seemed to mean brandishing assault rifles.
Laundry and handwashing, observed Blair, a mother of six, are what protects kids from an awful lot of what threatens them.
But evidently washing is too dull or motherly — or is it just too effective? — to appeal to the Mad Max fatherhood fantasists.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-17/coronavirus-mask-donald-trump-alex-jones-kevin-stitt-brian-kemp
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