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Ex-Detroit Tiger Aubrey Huff's anti-mask screed is another reason we're in trouble

MSU's Tom Izzo, Mel Tucker surprise Henry Ford doctor Scott Kaatz on video May 15, 2020. Kaatz survived a close call with coronavirus. Detroit Free Press

Aubrey Huff said he’d rather die from coronavirus than live in fear and wear a mask. The former big leaguer — who played in 40 games as a Detroit Tiger in 2009 — said this wasn’t a selfish position and that this “is a thing to try and free America so (Americans) can freely breathe.”

Retired baseball players espousing anti-science conspiracy nonsense and coating it in a misguided sense of patriotism wouldn’t normally be worth addressing.