Global Mask Diplomacy: How Violet Affleck’s Face Covering Became a Geopolitical Flashpoint
Violet Affleck, age 18, has lately been sighted in New York wearing a surgical mask. In saner centuries this would have rated a shrug; in 2024 it is being monitored with the same global intensity once reserved for missile tests. Why does a teenager’s facial accessory now warrant the sort of multilingual push-alert that used…