When I was a kid, I wore masks all the time shoveling grain inside bins. Little did I know that by doing so I was aiding and abetting communist ideology.

Generally, I don’t wear masks, even when now mandated to do so. But I also don’t consider it to be crossing the Rubicon (it was crossed a long time ago). That being said, I can not even begin to understand how standing one’s anti-mask ground is more important than receiving needed medical care, as has been admitted by some in this thread. Reminds me of a bicyclist who refuses to check both directions when passing through an intersection when said bicyclist has a green light, but gets killed by a car running a red; said bicyclist was dead right.