“Oh. I guess I must’ve have forgotten it at my desk, I said, though the truth was that I didn’t wear it that much. I didn’t like the way it made my mouth feel hot and suffocated, a bacterial cesspool. You should be more careful, Blythe chided. It’s company policy for a reason. If the masks actually work, don’t you think maybe there wouldn’t be an epidemic? I asked, facetiously polite.”
