Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made headlines on Friday, May 24, as he addressed the Libertarian National Convention and compared wearing a COVID mask to being a “slave.” Kennedy recounted an anecdote about being at a gathering without a mask when an NBC News crew approached him. He humorously pointed out, “They asked me why I wasn’t wearing a mask, which, nobody was, except for the NBC film crew.” The crowd responded with laughter. When questioned about his fear of contracting COVID-19, Kennedy told the crowd, “There’s a lot worse things than dying. Like living like …
