Here in the Time of Covid masks are an important tool. They might stop the spread of the virus and they definitely signal virtue and conformity to the community and therefore promote hand washing, social distance and staying home when sick.

But not everything about masks is good. MII (Mask Induced Injury) is real. Wearing a mask makes it harder to be heard especially with the slightly hearing impaired because they depend on watching your lips. This might lead to dangerous misunderstandings.

Masks are certainly a sarcasm inhibitor because you need facial expressions to indicate sarcasm. Face masks narrow your field of downward vision and will cause some people to stumble and fall down stairs. If the mask gets caught on your glasses the struggle to untangle it could cause injury. At the extreme one could envision eye injuries from snapped elastic. How long before one of these generates a lawsuit?

This is a joke.! Wear your mask. it is the communal thing to do.

“Be careful out there.” (from the TV cops show we can’t remember the name of)