Your Opinion: As pandemic increases, masks remain ‘personal preference’

Cal Winter

Jefferson City

Dear Editor:

As a major explosion of the COVID-19 pandemic looms over Missouri and the United States, and as expert opinion solidifies behind the importance of face masks to the control of this disease, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has taken the politically expedient position that the wearing of a face mask should be a matter of personal preference for free Missourians.

I think that an entirely apt comparison can be made between mandatory mask wearing and mandatory speed limit enforcement. Using mask logic, some never-maskers might argue that if they want to drive at 100 miles per hour, then, by golly, they have a right to drive at that speed. And there better not be no damned Communist try to tell them any different.