My wife and I were walking to a restaurant. The sun was out; the weather was perfect. A man walking towards us was wearing a mask. His eyes told his story. Wide-eyed and terrified. Horrified — of us. We were unmasked. He took a wide berth while he pulled his arm up to his face. He was warding off imaginary demons. That moment encapsulated a year that changed America – and not for the better.
I had many absurd moments like the above. A woman screamed at me for not being masked. I was in a park, 50 yards from her. A couple scolded me through their cloth masks. I was walking my dog, and my face was exposed. I was exposing them to COVID gremlins, or so they thought.
Just weeks before airline passengers were “allowed” to remove face muzzles, a flight attendant threatened me with “Are we going to have a problem?!” My sin was wearing my mask a…
