Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins indicated he doesn’t believe masks work in containing the coronavirus pandemic, though added he wears them to be “respectful to other people.”
Appearing on The Ringer podcast “10 questions with Kyle Brandt,” Cousins said he’s at peace with the thought of contracting the virus — if it happens.
“If I die, I die,” he said on the podcast, which was published Wednesday.
The discussion started when Brandt asked Cousins: “If 1 is the person who says, ’Masks are stupid, you’re all a bunch of lemmings’ and 10 is, ’I’m not leaving my master bathroom for the next 10 years,’ where do you land?”
Cousins, who spent the first six years of his career with the Washington Redskins, chuckled and replied he wouldn’t call anyone stupid because of the “trouble that would get me in.” But he said he was “about a .000001.”
Brandt then asked him to expand.
“I want to respect what other people’s concerns are,” Cousins said.”For me personally, just talking no one else can get the virus, what is your concern if you could get it, I would say I’m gonna go about my daily life. If I get it, I’m gonna ride it out. I’m gonna let nature do its course. Survival-of-the-fittest kind of approach. And just say, if it knocks me out, it knocks me out. I’m going to be OK. You know, even if I die. If I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that.
“So that’s really where I fall on it, so my opinion on wearing a mask is really about being respectful to other people. It really has nothing to do with my own personal thoughts.”
The CDC recommends wearing a mask as they “are most likely to reduce the spread of COVID-19 when they are widely used by people in public settings,” according to the agency. Masks help prevent respiratory droplets travel through the air and onto other people.
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