Uh oh, it's starting to look like all this COVID-19 personal protection equipment is kinda bad for the environment.
Didn't see that coming?
Liar!
Yup. This just in, the lefties are now complaining that masks are polluting our parks, streets, and waterways.
Imagine that!
Oh, oops, hey pal, I know you're trying to read right now, but could you please pull your mask up? It's for all of our safety. Thanks.
Boy the lefties sure are in a pickle now, aren't they?
"Let's see, what do we do here? If we keep forcing people to wear masks, the masks are just going to be everywhere—polluting our parks, streets, and waterways. But if we stop making people wear masks they'll get some of their freedom back. Sure, there'll be less pollution; but can you imagine what our idiot citizens will be capable of once they taste even the slightest hint of liberty again?"
Such a tough position to be in.
Really though, this is actually a serious issue. A lot of people think conservatives don't care about the environment. But we do. We certainly do. That's why we aren't even wearing masks in the first place. Joke. But we don't need carbon taxes or paper straws. We live by this little code we like to call PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY! And it works. We just throw our masks away when we're done with them. Because we're adults. Pretty simple stuff.
Here are some excerpts from the above article, which is brought to you from the Socialist Utopia of California:
Since the pandemic began early this year, masks have become a go-to item of the national wardrobe, especially here along the California coast where mask-wearing rates are high. But many are careless with the new accessory and, in windy places like many along this state's 840-mile coast, the masks and other products are ending up on sidewalks, skittering into storm drains, blowing onto beaches and ending up in the Pacific Ocean and its bays.
There's more...
A study published last summer in the journal Environmental Science & Technology estimated that 129 billion masks and 65 billion plastic-containing gloves are used globally each month, with "a significant portion" ending up in the world's oceans.
And even more...
Within 100 yards of the trailhead, a blue surgical mask caught the sun in a thicket of reeds, a flock of bufflehead ducks paddling through the calm waters in a V formation just a few yards away.
"It's just gross," she said. "When I see it, I always think, 'Who does that?'"
Man, if liberals could only have it both ways this would all be solved.
