Last week, Carolina Panthers safety Tre Boston expressed concern about the 2020 season happening after taking part in a two-hour call with the NFLPA, saying “it’s not looking good.” The NFL already faced enormous challenges regarding how to start up even before COVID-19 case numbers started exploding in dozens of states.
Yesterday, Boston shared an emotional follow-up to a tweet by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, which had a large number of ignorant, selfish replies in the comments. Boston called out the stupidity and implored people to just wear the damn mask.
Boy the amount of Stupid under this tweet is amazing! People think b/c less people are dying, over 100k dead already. That we should open up NC as if they aren’t watching AZ, TX, and FL closing again. Just Wear The Damn Mask!!!! Why is that so hard to comprehend to save others?! https://t.co/ra5oL1lWRk
— Tre Boston (@TreBos10) July 6, 2020
Here’s the thing. Wearing a mask is not an affront to your personal freedoms or your body’s ability to take in oxygen. Doctors and nurses have been wearing them all day at work for decades and can breathe perfectly fine. Also, countries that have embraced wearing masks have had far better results than the United States and some of them are already back to normal.
If you cannot be bothered to care about your fellow human beings, at least do it for the sports.
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