Colorado gov: People who won't wear masks are "selfish bastards"

When pressed about his Facebook post at a press briefing on Tuesday, Polis said the purpose of his message was to highlight that “even if you don’t care about the health of other people, wearing a mask reduces your own risk of getting coronavirus by about two-thirds.”

He went on to say that the recent post was just one a number of methods of communication he has used in recent weeks to convince people to wear masks.

“That means direct, it means humor, it means appeals to people’s patriotism, both with regard to their pride of being Americans as well as their pride of being Coloradans,” he said.

“Everybody makes their decisions differently. Some react to humor, some react to blunt statements, some to react to data, some react to peer pressure,” he said, adding: “There’s no one way to convince people to wear masks. I want to engage in every way I can to convince people to wear masks.”