Fear of Emaskulation From the President who uses BabyJane Hudson as his make-up Consultant.

                                                           Sell me caMay and go away.

 Mask?! Just say "NO!"
MAGA: Makeup Anything Getting Aged 

"I find them emasculating", he whined, fluttering dainty eyelashes that float above eyes deftly highlighted by a makeup regime considered incomplete without a touch of maskara. He apparently doesn't think a swipe of eyeshadow, a few strokes of a pencil to enhance his meticulously tweezed eyebrows, on top of an Almay liquid foundation of wrinkle-filling glop, are in the least bit feminizing. Orbs carefully contoured with eye shadow from multi-hued palettes that deliver the ultimate in depth and dimension hide his swollen, puffy bags; all are laid down with loving care unmatched by the models of Elle, the drag queens of Paris, the Madames of New Orleans, or the streetwalkers in San Francisco's tenderloin district, none of whom are as well acquainted with the myriad of products necessary to produce the President's cosmetically-derived, meticulously-engineered image.

Trumple's make-up Consultant..

 Such is the daily make-up regime of the man who claims it's emasculating to wear a mask. Or, more accurately, a cloth mask over the liquid and powder-based mask he's already wearing; and wearing for no other reason than an ersatz Vanity. An inch of pancake make-up is unabashedly spackled across cheeks brushed with rouge to enhance cheekbones disappearing under mounds of sagging flesh. Eyes are shaped with a contour pencil found only in most women's handbags, they are unfamiliar to most American Males. A dizzying array of product is used to sweep carefully cultivated and expertly clipped strands of thinning hair as The Trump Toilette requires it be dyed, tinted, teased, tucked, and more carefully and expensively coiffed than Liberace's. Yet the man wearing the most feminized and daintily-engineered hair sculpture in the world, fussed over more obsessively than that of any teenage girl readying herself for the Prom, thinks a little mask will make him appear feminine.

And yet, were he not so obsessed with his own image, perhaps he would have been astute enough to expostulate a real reason or two for his reluctance to don a cotton, rather than a cosmetic, face covering.

More than six months since the first infectious outbreak in China, we have arrived at barely two Max factors determining who gets ill and by how much:

1) viral load
2) time of viral exposure

The larger the load and the longer you're in an atmosphere filled with virus, such as a sick patient's room, the more likely it is that you will contract the virus, and the more likely it will be severe the larger the initial load and the longer you were exposed to it.

So, at least for now, washing your hands every 10 minutes or washing every item you bring home from the grocery store is probably not going to help.

But what that makes me wonder is, wouldn't that mean that if you unknowingly have the virus and were wearing a mask for any prolonged period of time, you would end up giving yourself a lethal dose, whereas had you not worn said mask, you may never have even come down with symptoms?

Is that too speculative? Is my reasoning off? It's my impression that when the medicos talk about "shedding virus", it's not like a mangy dog's coat, or a stripper's clothing, but is what you are breathing out. The virus isn't being scraped from your skin by your clothes rubbing against it, it's coming out of your air passages and being released to the environment around you. Unless, that is, you're wearing a mask. Then, each time you breathe, it isn't being released to the environment, (that's the point of the mask, after all, n'est-ce pas?), but is instead staying within the fibers of the mask to be breathed right back in again ... over and over .... hour after hour.

To me, what that suggests is that the two factors we've learned about how the virus gets deadly: viral load and exposure time, are both dramatically, perhaps lethally, increased by the requirement that asymptomatic people wear masks. Being masked while they are unknowingly already infected could well be making it highly probable that they are making their own case of COVID-19 that much worse. And the more effective the mask, the worse they are making their infection: this could help explain why so many hospital personnel are getting such serious cases: even a mild exposure is re-enforced with every breath they take thereby increasing the probability it will become a serious viral load.

This is why surgical, handmade, or cotton masks are far safer for the layman than N-95 masks: they don't spread your droplets nearly as far as wearing no mask would, but they let them out, just not at such a distance (half a foot, say, as opposed to the three feet, and further, sans mask), so you aren't breathing as many of them back in again, whereas with an N-95 mask, 95% of the virus you are shedding are available for you to inhale yet again.

It is only when someone is all image and no substance, the famous Emperor without Clothes comes to mind, that such fear-based obsession with your looks develops.  In short, wearing a mask emasculates for the presumed reason that it violates the core principle of masculinity, which is to show no weakness. But when you make it so obvious that the main reason is your own fear, your exaggerated fear of looking weak, when that fear is so palpably displayed it has the opposite effect than the one it intends: it broadcasts weakness. And that's what our DJ has been airing for months: US weakness that grows ever more apparent the longer the Donald occupies the Offal Office.
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