Anand Pandian, writing about an acquaintance on the libertarian side of the mask debate, for the Guardian:

For masks and vaccines acknowledge something he won’t: the truth of our vulnerability, our capacity to wound and be wounded by others. I don’t know when Frank and I will talk again. But we remain exposed to each other’s whims and disdains. One way or another, we’ll have to figure out what to do with each other’s company.

What I learned from an unlikely friendship with an anti-masker