This paper focuses on the ethical position of the mask within the contemporary moment of COVID-19 and against the Levinasian concept of face. Drawing from autoethnographic, theoretical, and political discourses, this paper attempts to create an historical and social exploration of Mike Pence's public eschewing of his mask in early 2020 as a means of delineating the differences between ethics and the species of morality Pence enacts. From this analysis, I suggest a pedagogy of ethics that comes before ideological and identity investments as a means of making the mask "more-than-the-face."