How Are You Gonna Argue With That?

I work as a tech for an optometrist. Since we’re medical, we require masks in the stores and our doctor won’t see anyone without them.

A lady comes in and we offer her a mask.

Patient: “Oh, but masks don’t do anything! Plus, I don’t believe God will let me get [illness], anyway.”

I am a raised and still professing Protestant.

Me: “You’re more than welcome to bring that up with the doctor, but we do ask that you wear it anyway because the worst-case scenario is that it does nothing but I did my best to protect and love my neighbor.”

She wore her mask.

Then, when she got back to the doctor, he told her she had cataracts forming (and a family history of cataracts, no less).

Patient: “I don’t believe God will allow me to get cataracts.”

The doctor was raised Mormon.

Doctor: “Well, God wrote cataracts into your DNA just like he wrote nearsightedness into your DNA. You’re developing cataracts.”