It’s the kind of justification you hear from someone with no interest in exploring the pros and cons of some new craze because he’s decided it’s just easier to go along with the crowd.

Conservatives especially ought to smell trouble when this empty rationale starts popping up.
Failing to understand that in a complex world seemingly trivial changes are liable to have momentous unforeseen consequences is, after all, a hallmark of most of the disastrous policies well-meaning liberals have inflicted on us (back in the good old days when most liberals were still well-meaning and didn’t simply want us dead).

So it’s particularly disheartening to see people who ought to know better insist that we all need to start wearing masks because, well, “what could possibly go wrong?”

Pretty much everything can and will go wrong if we all start wearing masks.

Here are 5 reasons why masks are anything but harmless and, indeed, will only make everything we’re enduring now even worse.