05-29-2020, 03:52 PM
Many people have COVID-19 without symptoms but can spread it nonetheless. Nobody knows who has it and who doesn't unless someone is getting medical treatment for it. Masks prevent the spread of COVID-19 by people who have it but have no idea that they have it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.