Louisville Courier-Journal: Covidiots protest mask mandates and practice 'freedumb' while more Kentuckians die
By BERRY CRAIG
Protests against mandated school masking in Kentucky and elsewhere remind me of my recent phone conversation with an old newspaper buddy.
“We’re in a war,” he said. “I think about that every day when I hear people complaining. In World War II, they had rationing, and I wonder if there were a lot of protests then. Did a lot of people say, ‘Hell, no, we won’t do it?’”
The answer is no, according to American history, a subject I taught for two dozen years after I left his newsroom for a community college classroom. More on that in a minute.