People Randomly Firing Guns

On the beaches in Alabama:

According to one beachgoer, identified as Bailey Karr, “Everybody’s got to go somehow.”

“You mean die?” the CNN correspondent asked.

“Yeah, but in a way — I mean, I don’t want to die,” the recent college graduate replied. “But if that’s what God has in store for my life, then that’s okay.”

According to another beachgoer, “My family has the same mindset as me, and we kind of just agreed if we get it, we get it. We’re going to handle it as a family and just get over it, because that’s what a family does.”

Yet another beachgoer defended not wearing a mask because Donald Trump doesn’t wear one in public.

“I mean, if he’s not wearing a mask, I’m not wearing a mask. If he’s not worried, I’m not worried,” he told Tuchman.

The base problem, of course, is that these people are not just endangering themselves.  If they were driving drunk down the highway in rush-hour traffic, we would all understand that.  But for some reason, we've forgotten the basic idea of contagion.  Or ignored the fact that "Typhoid Mary" can go from being a fictional character to a reality with this virus.  These people are endangering every person they not only come in contact with, but get within 6 feet off, including people who never went near the Alabama beaches.  One guy says he's fine if God wants him to die.  He doesn't consider whether or not God wants him to be  vector for disease, an agent of death.  He doesn't consider that it's not just about him.

Meanwhile, in Montgomery, Alabama:

“It’s not just themselves at risk when they do that, they put members of the public, their friends, their family at risk, and certainly our first responders and medical professionals,” [Mayor Steven Reed] said.

You can see why it would be important for the POTUS to say similiar things.  Instead, it's all about him:

We made most Governors look very good, even great, by getting them the Ventilators, unlimited Testing, and supplies, all of which they should have had in their own stockpiles. So they look great, and I just keep rolling along, doing great things and getting Fake Lamestream News!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020

Gonna be a long time until January 20, 2021.