Acosta Lealani Mae Y
Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Linacre Q. 2021 Aug;88(3):239-241. doi: 10.1177/0024363920966906. Epub 2020 Oct 27.
A physician engages in a social media debate regarding mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic and searches for truth and virtue, primarily charity. While wearing masks is commonplace and vital during the COVID-19 pandemic to those working in healthcare, the lay perspective on wearing masks is more varied and can be skewed by politicization, pseudoscience, and misinterpretation. The practicing Catholic physician serves as an important witness to the truth of science and Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The question of mask-wearing is transformed from merely being a scientific question to more of a moral and theological question.
一位医生参与了关于新冠疫情期间佩戴口罩的社交媒体辩论，探寻真理与美德，主要是慈善。虽然在新冠疫情期间，佩戴口罩对医护人员来说是司空见惯且至关重要的，但普通民众对佩戴口罩的看法更为多样，可能会受到政治化、伪科学和误解的影响。这位执业的天主教医生是科学真理以及基督即道路、真理和生命的重要见证者。佩戴口罩的问题从仅仅是一个科学问题转变为更多的道德和神学问题。
