Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. My name is John Harris. This is a super

short episode on masks. I actually have not done, it's still coming, my big episode on

masks and I'm going to argue these points more fully I might add some more points

We're going to talk about lockdowns as well. It's not just masks. I mean there's a whole bunch of things kind of running together here.

But you know here's here's the deal. There's some people who have sent me this article from the Gospel Coalition.

At least one person sent this one to me, but some other people have asked me,

would you comment on the masks, John?

I mean, I'm being clobbered over here.

People are telling me I got to love my neighbor,

so I have to have a mask.

And some people don't want to mirror mask some people I realize there's there's

a array of opinions on this and I'm just gonna straight up give you mine I'm not

gonna fool around I don't like wearing masks. I don't like many people do. But I don't think it does a whole lot of good. In fact, I think on a macro level it actually the studies that I keep

seeing seem to suggest that it actually makes it worse especially the way people are

using cloth masks over and over.

And it can, I know my mom's had issues even with having sties, you know, in her eyes, those kinds of things.

A lot of people are having an issue because the bacteria from your mouth now,

the mask, you know, depending on how you wear, and it's hard to get a seal over your nose, so it's going right into your

eyelid. And I just, I don't think that this crisis merits a,

it is not the mask itself, that's the problem,

but the mandate that every single person must wear a mask in many states.

They are required to wear a mask.

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