Faces Matter

Email me to place bids on the first shirt made with the logo “Faces Matter” - my email is carasimportan@gmail.com.  The starting bid is $20 plus shipping. Email me also to book tour support in Costa Rica or Panama at a rate of $50 per hour over zoom anytime or in person in San Jose Costa Rica or David, Panama during school year break vacations. The emphasis of these tours will be on building face to face connections with locals.

Dear fellow humans one and all, left, right, and center, theists and atheists, libertarians and authoritarians, you are human and your face matters to me, just as much, or even more, than your voice. Facial expressions arguably communicate more to the human brain than words, and through our faces we connect to each other on many deep levels. It is rumored that Voltaire once said, “I might disagree with you with in what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.” We are now being told that we might die of a virus if we don’t cover our faces in front of each other. With the vaccine out now, these risks of mortality are almost as remote as the risk of death by lightning strike, but I will tell you this. I would rather risk dying in letting you see my face and in seeing your face, then to live a rigidly walled off life at the price of keeping our faces separate in these face cages we call protective masks.  Would we rather live longer lives living in deeper separa...