Only in the United States.

For over one hundred years, well over one hundred years, since germ theory began to explain infections in patients, doctors and nurses have worn masks to avoid breathing out “germs” (bacteria and viruses) and none seemed to die for lack of ability to breathe. Not every doctor or nurse was in great shape, some had asthma, and yet it went unsaid, it was necessary.

Only in the United States, in the midst of an epidemic, are some Americans so selfish, so soft, so “First World,” and so political, that they will refuse to wear a mask to benefit others. In Georgia, Governor Brian Kemp must feel compelled to follow the lead set by that notable statesman, Donald Trump, who always thought masks were for puss*es and he didn’t need mask, nor want anyone around him in a mask. It nearly cost him his life. It didn’t change a thing.

We now see Kemp refusing to make masks mandatory, and a profile in courage comes to us from the University of Georgia, where an 88-year-old professor was not putting up with a student who was “having trouble breathing with a mask over her nose.” From Rawstory:

“Bernstein asked the student to pull her mask up to wear it correctly, but she said she ‘couldn’t breathe’ and ‘had a really hard time breathing’ with the cloth over her mouth and nose,” the publication reported. “Written on the board at the front of the classroom was, ‘No mask, no class,’ according to fourth-year psychology major Hannah Huff.”

Bernstein, 88, told the student he could die from COVID-19 complications. He had been informed two of his students were absent after testing positive.

“At that point I said that whereas I had risked my life to defend my country while in the Air Force, I was not willing to risk my life to teach a class with an unmasked student during this Pandemic,” Bernstein told the newspaper. “I then resigned my retiree-rehire position.

Damned right. Only in America will a country ask a man to risk his life in the Air Force, and then risk it again by teaching an upper-division psychology class.

“Bernstein wrote in an email to The Red & Black that the head of the psychology department said he could not enforce a mask policy upon his students. UGA follows the policies of the University System of Georgia, which only encourages masks inside campus facilities and does not allow its institutions to enact mask or vaccine mandates,” the newspaper reported.

https://twitter.com/hannahhuffn/status/1430163931100758028

First world problems, global diseases, idiot dictator junta leaders as governors. America 2021.

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