Does a man without a mask look tough? No, just vulnerable – and lethal | Suzanne Moore

While the government offers only mixed messages on face coverings, a ridiculous outlaw machismo has been on the rise

Barefaced masculinity stares at us everywhere we go. Its boastful machismo says that it's inviolable. Real men" don't wear masks even when they are told to. On a train in England the other day, where all the other passengers were masked and distanced, two young men were telling each other how much they liked to be off their heads and how they wouldn't wear masks because ... at that point I stopped listening. This was not going to be a discussion about civil liberties, was it?

The basic idea that we wear masks to protect others in case we spread the virus had not reached them. These guys were outlaws. Social solidarity? Not for these rebels without a hand sanitiser.