Masks are the latest political, cultural divide
Kevin Krannawitter won't wear a mask because he just doesn't think it's necessary, whatever the scientists say.
Marilyn Singleton won't wear one either, because she says it's un-American for the government to force people to cover their faces.
You won't see Ricardo Thornton in a mask because it reminds him of a time when he wasn't free to make his own decisions about his life.
Even as governors, mayors and the federal government urge or require Americans to wear masks in stores, transit systems and other public spaces to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the nation is divided about whether to comply. And it is divided in painfully familiar ways - by politics and by attitudes about government power and individual choice. Almost overnight, masks have become common in some places, even as they are still rare in others.
For Trump's supporters, declining to wear a mask is a visible way to demonstrate "that 'I'm a Republican,' or 'I want businesses to start up again,' or 'I support the president,' " said Robert Kahn, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis who has studied Americans' attitudes toward masks. "Masks will quickly become the new normal in blue states, but if social distancing continues through 2022, the mentality among Republicans could well change, too: If I can go to work and the cost of marginal improvement in my life is wearing a mask, maybe Americans of both parties do accommodate ourselves to it."
For many Trump supporters, the mask seems to be a symbol of an approach to the virus that weighs too heavily against relaunching the economy. Kevin Krannawitter, who lives in Lawrence, a small college town in Kansas, said he is eager to get business moving again, and although he tries to follow all sides of the issue, he worries that "in general, we are hearing the science-only side. Things tend to get overdone, and people take things too far," he said.
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There are then the "alternate facts" to support that contention. 
We are descending into the gray goo of a form of moral relativism based on ignorance. I don't think a culture or society can thrive or even survive long based on that.
There is also the framework of logic and reason in the philosophical sense in order to determine truth by way of premises, deduction, induction, abduction and syllogisms along with the recognition of demonstrable fallacies, which I think is more relevant in this context than the empiricism of physical sciences in a general and political sense. In effect, the rejection of that kind of structure, or the blatant rejection of it, leads to the rejection of the findings of science, et al.
We are in danger of an intellectual and moral oblivion based on the populist moral relativism and the like being foisted onto the culture now with a heavy hand in order to achieve that.
Not wearing masks puts OTHERS in danger.
