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In Mobile, Alabama, there are people out everywhere, have been for a couple of weeks despite a stay-at-home order and nightly curfews. The traffic in front of our house is about 3/4 or more of what it is on a normal day. You go to stores and there might be a third of the people wearing masks or other protective gear. Social distancing has dropped to nothing if it isn't strictly enforced by the stores.
Few are acting mindfully. We've had cops breaking up massive block parties. They had to close the parks because so many people were having gatherings and picnics. The city was forced to remove rims from basketball courts to stop the games from going on as usual.
The always-abundant street litter now includes a wealth of discarded nitrile gloves and sanitizing wipes.
One popular local media outlet has screamed for weeks about ending measures, decrying the response to the pandemic, demanding everything return to normal. They have purposefully strayed away from news that the county had the most dramatic rise in cases in the entire state and has almost twice the per capita cases of far more densely populated cities.
The mayor's hand was forced by the county health department and the governor into installing measures but has been itching to end them since they started. He is trying every trick he can to skew numbers, in hopes his denials and delusions can lead to the earliest possible dropping of measures.
From what's been seen on social media and in response to his remarks, he has plenty of backers in a town marked by high complacency and conservatism.
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