Wearing Masks, Fashionably

YOU WONDER whether the wearing of a mask might insinuate itself into American fad and fashion, whether it night eventuate, soon, that wearing a mask in public becomes stylish, acceptable, preferable, rather like should pads for women were, oh, say, twenty five or thirty years ago. Imagine that, a mask wearing fad sweeping America, like the color "black" did in the nineteen nineties, for instance. Prepared psychologically and emotional as I am for a return to normalcy, whatever that might be, I am not quite sure that I am ready to appear in public bare faced, having been bemasked in public all these weeks. I'm likely to test the waters by slipping into the senior center thought the back door, mask on, and set up my laptop at a table in the corner, and sorta encourage people, by my body language, to stay six feet away at the least. I would even prefer that at the beginning of the reopening that all members sit at different tables; one person per table, in a room with at least twenty tables. Perhaps as the election draws near, Trump supporters will defiantly appear in public without masks, as a show of confidence and strength, a show of belief that teh virus is thoroughly whipped. The progressives, on the other hand, might establish a social protocol of always wearing a mask in public, as a show of respect for science and common sense. Mask wearing, or the lack of it, might become the easy way to tell the two sides apart, as our one day election day war approaches.