{"id":31379,"date":"2021-03-06T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=31379"},"modified":"2021-02-21T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:42:01","slug":"traveling-to-scold-the-covid-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/06\/traveling-to-scold-the-covid-sinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling to scold the COVID sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Maskachusetts resident who has achieved Super Karen status when it comes to advocacy of masks and shutdown (daily Facebook postings for our full year (so far) of &#8220;14 days to flatten the curve&#8221;) went down to Wicked Florida for the February school break that we have here. He hung his phone out of a car window and made a video of people mixing in various open-to-the-street venues on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale, captioned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Wonder what happens if you party like it\u2019s 1999\u2026you get the highest virus transmission rate in the country. Looks like fun though I think I\u2019ll just keep on driving!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the various comments, one from a Floridian:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>in your statement above, \u201cbecause these folks ignore the rules they are going to cause a problem and creat a backlash that will cause shutdowns and restrictions\u201d. Aren\u2019t you also doing that by out of state travel?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>My answer to her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think [he] is working in an established literary tradition. 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