What would Jesus do?

What would Jesus do?
To the Editor:
The purpose of this letter is to support and concur with the sentiments expressed by Patricia Bock published in this paper a few weeks ago. There are those in this country who have a very deluded and perverted understanding of the Bible and the Christian religion, so as to somehow believe that God gave them the right to not wear a medical safety mask. “I get my rights from God, not the government,” they say. True enough. But where in the Bible does it give us the right to endanger the lives of others or rebel against our own elected government by refusing to wear a mask? 
Also, lately nowhere, of course. 
“What would Jesus do in our situation?” is a good question to ask about the mask wearing requirements. Would Jesus be so inconsiderate of the health and welfare of those in his society as to disdain to wear a mask if asked to do so? Of course not! The real Jesus of the Bible would cooperatively comply with such a reasonable and prudent request. 
And there are at least two other very Biblical reasons that genuine Christians will willingly wear a mask when required or asked to do so: 
The first is that the Bible requires that God’s people use reasonable safety equipment to protect the well-being of others. We see this principal illustrated in Deuteronomy 22:8.
“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.” 
This verse teaches clearly that if a person failed to provide or use a piece of safety equipment that resulted in injury or death to someone, they would be held responsible by God with bloodguilt — a sin that was always so serious that society could impose the death penalty if it chose to do so. The modern moral application to those who refuse to protect others by not wearing a medical mask is plain and obvious. 
Secondly, the New Testament plainly tells Christians to submit to the authority of civil rulers unless to do so would cause them to transgress some other moral law in the Ten Commandments. “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.”
(Romans 13:1-2)
Obviously then, any true and authentic Christian will, one, cooperate with the governing authority and their representatives and wear a mask when required or asked to do so since wearing it certainly does not violate any other Biblical principal morality. And two, a real Christian will be considerate of the safety and feelings of others like Jesus would be and wear a mask even if he is quite sure that he himself isn’t sick. (And the scientific fact is that any person can unknowingly be an asymptomatic carrier of the disease whether he knows it or not.)
Therefore we conclusively reiterate that any so-called Christian who says God has given them the right not to wear a mask has concocted an idea of God purely from his own imagination, which in reality has nothing to do with the unselfish Jesus of the Bible who always put others first, not his own selfish convenience as these mask resistors
are doing. 
For a better world,
— Leonard Lang