I am very sorry about the suffering of your friend’s preemie. I will not comment further about the pain of premature babies, because some already know and the rest don’t need to.
However please do not insult us. You are too lazy to wear a mask and it bothers you and makes you feel ridiculous in your own eyes. So you don’t. You also probably voted for the candidate who caters to non-mask-wearers without even considering if he furthers your interests or he doesn’t. Have you even taken out a calculator and figured out which candidate is proposing the tax scheme most convenient to you?
Your country (you feel United Statesian, don’t you? You don’t feel you are a Yid and our enemy Esav will soon fall?) is in a sad state and whoever is the next President will go down in history books, and not in a desirable way. Maybe that’s why Biden did his best not to be elected. I understand, it’s not easy for you.
In order to put up your attitude, you are bringing up something totally unrelated: in NICU all people wear masks, whether there is covid-19 or not. You also do not refrain from suggesting that a major problem of preemies are mask-wearing people. Preemies whose every single interaction with a human being means added pain on top of unbearable pain, who may or may not see (oxygen-induced retinopathy and sometimes not possible to address it timely).Yet you are concerned about their loving parents and NICU staff wearing a mask, which anyway, they always do.
If you can’t have any empathy towards a tiny baby barely visible among the bundle of plumbing and machinery and who is suffering more than anyone under torture (the latter is aware that they eventually will lose consciousness or die) I don’t expect you to have empathy for anyone else.
Finally, may I say there is no dearth of science. There is a dearth of intelligent people.