During the early days of the Covid pandemic, it seemed like Americans might learn some lessons about how the health of one person impacts the health of others.
It seemed like the existence of a highly communicable disease that could kill you would make us, as a nation, reconsider things like not mandating that food and service industry workers get paid time off.
It seemed like we would have all learned that we’re all only as healthy as the person making our pizza or the worker who bags our groceries. Logic would have suggested that we would have at least embraced testing for easily passed viruses and preventative mask-wearing for public-facing workers who were even mildly worried about passing on an illness.
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Those things are logical, but logic can’t trump politics, so mask-wearing, getting doctor-suggested vaccines, and advocating for sick days for service industry workers became — at least to some Americans — signs of wokeness.
Believing in science and trusting doctors somehow became liberal traits even as people got sick, buried friends and relatives, and saw that people wearing masks actually cut down on non-Covid-related disease transmission.
Wearing a mask or taking a test when you think you might have a communicable disease seems as basic as covering your mouth when you sneeze, but the political divide seems to sometimes replace logic. Testing for Covid and other illnesses seemed like it was going to be a long-term growth industry, but like mask-wearing, it has actually become much less common than you might have guessed during the darkest days.
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