In the end, it is the face mask that is the clearest symbol of America’s divide

Heroes of the left, Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx have been wrong, wrong, wrong.  Long ago the great Thomas Sowell wrote that “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” 

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Patricia McCarthy  "There have been several great columns on the debate over mask-wearing in public.  Scott McKay at American Spectator explains why the mask is essentially useless:  The mask is not an adequate defense against the COVID-19 virus, gang. The virus checks in at somewhere between 0.06 and 0.14 microns, meaning it’s too small for any commercially available mask to effectively filter it out. The pores on an N95 mask, which are the best masks you’re reasonably going to find, and the vast, vast majority of you are not going to have N95 masks but rather cloth masks, which perform far less well, are 0.3 microns.”  Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker  writes about how “wearing face masks has become a cultural divide….On the left, mask wearing has become a basic marker of good citizenship, no matter how silly it may be…' ”  
"Then on Tuesday at the Federalist, David Marcus astutely observes that the mask has become the political symbol of 2020.  Indeed it has.  In Staten Island a mob of “karens” forced a woman from a store for not wearing a mask and they were not at all polite about it; they were vicious. " . . . 

Jon Gabriel gives a good accounting of the two types of people who have been revealed since the virus came to visit, “karens” and “sharons.”  That would be the ones who virtue-signal by shaming anyone not wearing a mask and those who live and let live.