In Rural Texas, Skeptics Prevail Even With Virus Mounting

Masks are loathed in small towns while Covid-19 deaths surge

A cowboy cut-out wears a face mask near Lake Whitney, Texas, on Thursday. — A cowboy cut-out wears a face mask near Lake Whitney, Texas, on Thursday.
Photographer: Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg

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By Thomas Black

July 24, 2020 at 10:45 AM EDT

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In the vast expanses of rural Texas, coronavirus is creeping in like the dust.

And — like the dust — few pay it much mind.

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