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“Looking back I should have wore a mask in the beginning but I didn’t and perhaps I’m paying the price for it now”  Brian Hitchens, Florida  NBC News

A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus, according to the chief medical officer at a Texas hospital.  New York Times, July 12, 2020

“I’m always around people but I was like, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine.’ Never did I think I’d catch it….Maybe if I would have just listened and worn a mask, just a simple thing, I would have avoided all this,”  Paola Castillo, 24 who spent 79 days in hospital  Business Insider  July 20, 2020

It’s uncomfortable, for sure. No matter who you are and what you do. Teaching 100 plus students a day is no different. But it’s best we follow science. It’s just a tiny piece of cloth, after all. Fire fighters, dentists and ER doctors have being doing their whole work life.