As some attack face coverings as an assault on freedom, some Trump allies have bowed to reality amid Covid-19’s spread
Nancy Allen, 73, wears a face mask in the chicken coop at her farm but not when she goes to church. “There’s been so much change in what we should do and what we should not do,” explains the Donald Trump supporter from Shelby, North Carolina. “I don’t think that I should be told that I have to wear a mask and I don’t think the president should, unless he feels like he needs it.”
Neera Tanden, 49, became infected with the coronavirus in May, suffering fatigue and muscle pain and sleeping long hours. Her Twitter handle is now “Neera -Wear a Mask -Tanden”. The president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal thinktank in Washington, says of Trump: “His position of politicising mask use is barbaric and it is ensuring that more people will get sick and more people will die.
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