The Anti-masker Bubble

Michael Abberton
7 min readAug 7, 2020

Science Denial and Conspiracy Theory all in one

Anti-masker. Another neologism with its genesis in the US, that is now on the rise in the UK, as we belatedly adopt the same minimum safety measures that have been in place across Europe and elsewhere for months. But who are the anti-maskers, why are they determined to ignore the science and wealth of evidence from other countries on the efficacy of these measures? And why…

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Michael Abberton

Tomahawk thrower, writer, trade unionist, Japanese speaker and all around good guy.