Name: Why the political divide over face masks?
Uploaded: 2020-11-02T11:02:58-0500
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Description: Face masks have become a controversial issue for some Americans, even leading to a political divide. Why?

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I think there is a stigma toe wearing a mask. I know I've talked to people, and I've heard them say, Well, I wanna wear a mask But I'm afraid people judge me and think I'm weird or a sheep. Is that where they use this sheep? That's what have been called. I feel like I'm pretty hated right now. Michelle Walker has become an unlikely villain in this remote part of Missouri. She runs the Carter County Health Center, which wasn't a controversial job until Cove it. She says many residents resent her team's efforts to control the virus they don't believe can be controlled. At first they were very scared and very aware, but recently they're bored with it. Everybody's tired of it. In my opinion, a lot of people don't think of the severity of the illness or even the reality of the illness. They think just it's affecting their everyday life. Kobe kind of took normal everyday country Living cove. It is spiking in rural America, including here in the Ozarks, Walker says. Connor counties positivity rate has risen to 30% in the last week, and their cases went from 40 in August to about 200. Now that's a lot in a county with just 6000 people, no hospital and two ambulances. This is currently where we're housing all of the counties peop e. Everyone knows everyone here. They know who's in quarantine and who wears masks. There's a lot of shame. I mean, there's a lot of the reason why we're seeing cases rise now is because people don't want to get tested because they don't wanna affect people's lives. And they don't want to risk their aunt, uncle, niece or their ball team getting quarantine. We talked to the people at the Health Department. They feel like now they're kind of hated in town. They are why we're really fortunate to have them there until they start telling people how to live their lives. To be perfectly honest with you, If I walked through town wearing a mask, there'll be somebody called me a hippie for wearing a mask. When Covad first hit, Brian Keithley and his family stockpiled goods and stayed home for weeks. Now he says he's over it and that it's gotten to political way. Sit in the coffee shop and watch people walk in the door. We look at a mask and we all looked at each other. We go Democrat. It's a political virus for the most part and made it political. The government who was in charge of Would you like to say, Would you like to put all this off on Trump? And he should have been a leader and he should have. He should have got up in front of podium and said, Everyone where their masks. It's a really good mask. It's a really, really good mass. We have the greatest mass ever. Nobody cares what Trump has to say. There's no politician. There's no person of authority of any kind that can issue any kind of order that's gonna make people abide by this. Do you want e told you it's a political situation. I don't know what it would take for people to take it more seriously, and I'm just really tired of people insinuating that it's about politics when it's really about people's health. For the most part, uh, people are revolting against it and revolting to the point that they're causing may be causing a little damage. But does that make you a bad human when you finally just give in and realize it's here to stay. I can't help everybody, and I can't keep everyone safe. And I know that there's a chance that I may get it, and it's a calculated risk. I guess If I get it and it kills me, then it's slow walking inside, singing for the family. What would you put on your tombstone? Didn't wear a mask? Ellie Reeve, CNN. Van Buren, Missouri.

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Why the political divide over face masks?

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