Who’s Enforcing the Rules to Wear Masks? It's Often Retail Workers, and They’re Too Often Getting Hurt by the Selfish People Who Refuse to Wear Masks. nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/… pic.twitter.com/Pyt0dXHA5z

We’ve made indoor smoking bans mandatory - we should do the same with masks in public. No one wants to breathe another person’s exhaled cigarette smoke, much less their exhaled #COVID19 droplets.

Who’s Enforcing Mask Rules? [Because our president and his flunkies are bankrupt in every way it’s] Retail Workers, and They’re Getting Hurt.

@BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @SwearerCenter @pubstory @tompharvard @JMLudes @gwaynemiller @jseelybrown @Morning_Joe @costareports @juliaf113 @khaila__ @KBAndersen @dlittle30 @kimberlykhoang @TomPerez @WatsonInstitute @robert_a_blair @craigjcalhoun @nyu_ipk @ikaribjanian @nkwarikoo @chinyereagbai @ohahl @asr_journal @bartbonikowski @UMich @toddgitlin @SlaterPolitics @umichWCED @engagedscholar @DYStateofMind @emmaschow @alex_s_cramer @craigmelvin @billpeduto @peterbakernyt @GlennKesslerWP @CharlesMBlow @neal_katyal @gtconway3d @pareene @MichelleObama @PreetBharara @creoleprof @bonnie_honig @umichpolisci @nytimes @Laurie_Garrett @dananessel Much like the MAGA hat, going without a mask has become a symbol of defiance of science, & Trumpism. That it inspires violent confrontations nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/… should not be surprising with the additional emotional and social stresses accompanying #Covid19 #PandemicSociology

Who’s Enforcing Mask Rules? Often Retail Workers, and They’re Getting Hurt nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/… Indoor mask use vital for ph but is becoming a symbol of cultural conflict. Enforcement should be cooperative, not coercive, more a matter of health educ than policing.