I have family members who are anti-maskers. I was very concerned about them in terms of their own safety, but fortunately for them they live in Illinois where most citizens are apparently on board with mitigation measures and have managed to keep the virus mostly at bay over the recent months, no thanks to my relatives.

Most of them are evangelicals, and that is where the real paradox lies. One sister had six kids of her own, and then adopted five black children who she did a wonderful job of raising — four of them are in college right now, and the fifth already has a scholarship offer to play volleyball at a major college. At the same time, she can be counted on to repost any of the click-bait that comes across her feed of far right websites and is one of the first to respond to any support for Black Lives Matter with her own All Lives Matter comment.

All of these folks are firm right to lifers who bemoan the fate of all those poor embryos who did not get to be born, but at the same time they seem willing to sacrifice the lives of thousands of people who were born, all in the name of re-opening the economy. If one judged their posts and rejoinders on a continuum where one end is preserving life, and the other is preserving money, then everything they do and say lines up on the money end of that spectrum.