‘Cognitive difficulties’?

Dear Editor:

RE: Don’t be selfish - wear a mask, Sept. 24.

I would like to commend you on your excellent editorial regarding the anti-maskers.

While the rest of the province, the country and the world strive to lessen the impact COVID-19 is having on us, I can only shake my head at the selfish individuals who think they know better than the nurses, such as your wife, than the doctors and researchers working countless hours to treat the ill and develop a vaccine, and the elected government officials who are trying to balance the rights of and to protect all citizens from the effects of COVID-19.

The anti-maskers claim to have exemptions from wearing masks.  So I did an online search of exemptions.  From the photo taken during their protest, they were not under the age of two;  they did not appear to be exercising social distancing; they did not appear to be eating or drinking; they did not appear to be deaf or hard of hearing, so the only conclusion I could come to was that they had exemptions because of their cognitive difficulties.

Penny Esdale, Fergus