I love Maine but it broke my heart to see this in the press on Sunday morning. A picture of a packed bar district in Portland, Maine. Portland, the liberal and intellectual centerpiece of Maine.
The northeast is recovering and doing better than the rest of the nation because we aren’t red state morons that refuse to wear masks because their Cheeto-in-Chief refuses to wear a mask.
This is the precise behavior that has led Florida, Texas, and Arizona to the precipice of disaster. We are smarter than this. We are not a strip mall built on top of a eroding sandbar (Florida).
S. Korea has less than 300 deaths because they tested, traced, and simply wore a mask. We are not asking you to storm the beaches of Normandy or weave through the jungles of Vietnam. We are asking you to wear a mask. This is not a big ask in the grand scheme of things.
It does not take a genius to see Maine’s future if they continue down this path. Sadly, you’ll probably blame out of staters for bringing the virus to Maine. However, the only ones to blame will be yourselves if you don’t get more disciplined about wearing a mask.
If wearing a mask is simply a bridge too far, then shut down the bars. Shut them down till a vaccine eradicates Covid-19. To do anything else is like leaving an irresponsible child in a room with a loaded gun.
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