Dear Editor:

I would like to offer the following statement in response to Steven Scheu’s (”Our freedoms are waning”) disturbing analogy: The Taliban lashed women (and threw acid on them) for not covering their faces as an act of violence and control based upon principles of misogyny, male-supremacy, and patriarchy. Public health professionals, doctors, and elected officials have ordered all people to cover their faces in order to promote public health based upon principles of epidemiology, ...