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February 15, 2021, 12:21 pm
Mark Hamill, best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise, has teamed up with writer and illustrator Tom Ruegger to produce a reading of a new children’s story titled “Will You Wear a Mask? I Ask.”
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The story features a grocery store worker arguing with an individual in a noticeably red hat who is refusing to wear a mask inside the shop.
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The art and writing styles appear to be modeled after Dr. Seuss’s famous Green Eggs and Ham, with the anti-masker listing responding in the negative to the list of places in which the worker asks him if he’ll wear a mask. Hamill, also famous for his long resume of awesome voice acting, reads the story to you in a YouTube video.
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The book itself is real and can be purchased on Kindle so you can read it to your children yourself, and all proceeds benefit the World Central Kitchen, which is working to feed families in need during the pandemic.
“This children’s book was created to support President Joe Biden’s public mask mandate, to increase health and safety across America,” the video information reads.
In the story, a grocery store employee in a surgical mask greets an unmasked individual outside and informs him that masks are required to entire the building. The would-be shopper then trots out a list of reasons why he shouldn’t have to wear a mask that echoes the exact excuses given by real-world anti-maskers in various viral videos from the past year.
“I have reasons, you will see,” says the cartoon platypus in the red hat. “Special reasons, just for me.”
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He also whips out one of those fake “medical exemption” cards, but in an homage to Dr. Seuss, the doctor who signed the note is the famous children’s book author himself.
“Your doctor’s note has little use, since it was signed by Dr. Seuss,” says the worker.
“This really is a lame excuse,” the note reads. “Signed: Sincerely, Dr. Seuss.”
In the end, the worker refuses to budge on the rules and asks the anti-masker if he would wear a mask in his own casket, the image of which is enough to convince the red hat man to cover his face.
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Hamill tweeted an announcement about this video back in January, but with everything else that was happening, it didn’t get much notice until now. He posted a reminder today, and that’s getting significantly more attention now that the historic second impeachment trial of a U.S. president is over.
Many adults are now enjoying it just as much as, and perhaps more than, any child would.
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*First Published: February 15, 2021, 12:21 pm
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