The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun
Across the country, social distancing is morphing from a public-health to political act. The consequences could be disastrous.
McKay Coppins
March 30, 2020
For Geoff Frost, the first sign of the coronavirus culture war came last weekend on the golf course. His country club, located in an affluent suburb of Atlanta, had recently introduced a slew of new policies to encourage social distancing. The communal water jugs were gone, the restaurant was closed, and golfers had been asked to limit themselves to one person per cart. Frost, a 43-year-old Democrat, told me the club’s mix of younger liberals and older conservatives had always gotten along just fine—but the guidelines were proving divisive.
At the driving range, while Frost and his like-minded friends slathered on hand sanitizer and kept six feet apart, the white-haired Republicans seemed to delight in breaking the new rules. They made a show of shaking hands, and complained loudly about the “stupid hoax” being propagated by virus alarmists. When their tee times were up, they piled defiantly into golf carts, shoulder to shoulder, and sped off toward the first hole.
Frost felt conflicted. He wanted to encourage the men, some of whom he’d known for years, to be more careful. “I care about their well-being,” he told me. “But it’s a tough call, just personally, because it’s become a political thing.”
For a brief moment earlier this month, it seemed as if social distancing might be the one new part of American life that wasn’t polarized along party lines. Schools were closed in red states and blue; people across the political spectrum retreated into their home. Though President Donald Trump had played down the pandemic at first, he was starting to take the threat more seriously—and his media allies followed suit. Reminders to wash your hands and avoid crowds became commonplace on both Fox News and MSNBC. Those who chose to ignore this guidance—the spring-breakers clogging beaches, the revelers on Bourbon Street—appeared to do so for apolitical reasons. For the most part, it seemed, everyone was on the same page.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/social-distancing-culture/609019/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Katherine Vincent-Crowson, a 35-year-old self-defense instructor from Slidell, Louisiana, has watched in horror this month as businesses around her city were forced to close by state decree. A devotee of Ayn Rand, Vincent-Crowson told me Louisiana’s shelter-in-place order was a frightening example of government overreach.
“It feels very militaristic,” she said. “I’m just like, ‘What the hell, is this 1940s Germany?’”
But when we spoke, she seemed even more aggravated by the “self-righteous” people on social media who spend their time publicly shaming anyone who isn’t staying locked in their house. “It really reminds me of my kids who tattle on their siblings when they do something bad,” she said. “I’m a libertarian … I don’t really like being told what to do.”
Your a idiot.....................in my opinion.................
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You get doxxed and called a murderer. I mean shit, people need to get a fucking grip right now. 
When Rock died, that changed is *suddenly* some 7 years after it first appeared in 1978 ...
It too was allowed to spread and they knew ...
... grocery store employees and letter carriers and the like, in addition to the health care professionals who know they are risking their own lives to save these absolute bottom-dwellers and still courageously go to work every day.
It INFURIATES me to think of these golf-course morons blithely flouting the guidelines, getting sick, getting treatment and exposing others, then getting better themselves while people they infected die. That has surely happened already. Innocent, brave people have paid the price for the "nobody's going to tell me what to do" asswipes. The people who have the least control over their own exposure are, proportionally, going to pay the highest price. It sickens me and every other person with a conscience.
If only what you said were true. 
Dear Leader said once that he wouldn't have time for golfing!
I'll avoid any Republicans once they show their cards and their deck is minus a few?
