Gerald Elias: Masks don’t limit freedom, they protect it

Darin Bushman, a Piute County commissioner, likened Gov. Gary Herbert to Adolph Hitler. Why? Because the governor approved requests from two Utah counties for their residents to wear face masks indoors. I can’t imagine that an elected official like Bushman would be so ignorant of 20th century history as to truly believe that his Nazi comparison is anything more than rhetorical flourish.Accusing decision-makers of being a Nazi or Hitler is almost de rigueur these days. Those opprobria have