Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization recommend people wear cloth masks when out in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Yet there are still those who refuse to do so.
Like that Karen who had an absolute meltdown inside a Trader Joe’s in North Hollywood over the weekend when she was told she needed to wear a mask inside the store as mandated by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Opening day at Trader Joe’s in North Hollywood, Ca.
Karen is mad she was mask shamed… pic.twitter.com/pF3Zgj3w2E
— Rex Chapman?? (@RexChapman) June 27, 2020
One person who is not having any of this mask-denying B.S. is George Takei who, at age 83, is at an increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19.
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Yesterday, he tweeted: “The fragility of folks who won’t wear a mask is truly breathtaking. I lived for four years inside two internment camps, and I heard less bitching and whining there than I do today.”
The fragility of folks who won’t wear a mask is truly breathtaking. I lived for four years inside two internment camps, and I heard less bitching and whining there than I do today.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 28, 2020
The tweet has received almost 170K likes, 36K retweets, and hundreds of comments.
Meanwhile, over on Instagram, Instagays have been showing off their masks using the hashtag #mask4mask.
Now that’s one hashtag we can get behind!
On a serious note, if you’re one of those people who still refuses to a mask when you’re out in public, please reconsider. If you can’t do it for yourself, do it for George Takei.
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Kangol2
Mask for mask–I love it. Or as someone on here wrote, mask it or casket!
CityguyUSA
Let’s see how many phony body parts we can count.