Herrington: Government mask ordinances risk doing more harm than good
Plus: A super-sized ‘Phase 2,’ Cohen’s Congressional Caddy and some coronavirus co-signs
Chef Ashton Hall wears a University of Memphis face mask on Friday, May 8, 2020 at Shelby Farms. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
The elevation of mask-usage into a kind of political symbol is a drag — it’s flat-out dumb — but it’s happened, and I’d worry that a government requirement, even a loosely enforced one, would increase the political strife around the issue without a commensurate increase in compliance.
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