If Only Covid-19 Caused Permanent, Full-Body Hair Loss
Would the face mask debate be over?
Would America’s most senseless debate — to wear a face mask or to not wear a face mask — still be raging if Covid-19 caused its victims, every victim, to suffer permanent, full-body hair loss?
The answer to that question is: “No.” No. The debate would be over.
If only life was that simple. If only the genetic code for hair loss was imbedded in the Covid-19 virus, thereby causing baldness.
For if Covid-19 did cause baldness, all of humanity would have masked up due to vanity as word of the virus spread during the early months of 2020. The United States population would have been no exception. No matter which debate position one takes in our blue and red states — masks as life-savers or masks as democracy-killers — one can acknowledge that Americans would have become laser-focused on winning the war against their newest enemy, an enemy known as permanent-non-life-threatening-Covid-19-related hair loss.
In reality, during the early months of 2020, the government, media, and healthcare experts were reporting that a new, highly-contagious virus had reached the U.S. and was causing serious incapacitation and death. Health care advisors recommended that the public wear face masks, the simplest of…
