In the encyclical Humanum Genus, Leo XIII called upon Catholic leaders to “tear off the mask from Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ and make plain to all what it really is”. Their irritating hubris (putting on the mask) is a signal for silencing people, specifically Christians, to divide people of good will with muzzling and social distancing, but the people of bad will, total freedom to do what they will. Never a mask.