Quick Memorial Day 2020 Rage Post

So I know this is Memorial Day weekend, traditionally the start of THE SUMMER SEASON, but this is 2020 and we're three months into an official COVID-19 Pandemic and one of the key things we need to be doing is SOCIAL DISTANCING and avoiding crowded places, which is why there's no Summer Blockbuster Movie Summer to be pining over - I am missing my Wonder Woman sequel, damn you trump - and why whatever meager travel plans I had for my birthday this month are on hold and why for the LOVE OF GOD we need to be avoiding the beaches and water holes and yet here's a bunch of things on Twitter and the news outlets about how FAR TOO MANY of our fellow Americans are breaching the safety guidelines, JESUS CHRIST, such as reports coming out about the turnout at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri:

...They appear to show people gathering at Redhead Lakeside Grill and Yacht Club in Osage Beach at Lake of the Ozarks. We've blurred the faces in the photos, until we learn more about the event, and why so many people were allowed inside.

The pictures show people close together, with no masks...

5 On Your Side reached out to the Camden County Sheriff's Department who said, the state does have social distancing guidelines, but "It doesn't seem people are following it very well here."

The Sheriff's Department has not been called to any incidents so far, and said they do not have any penalty to enforce because there are no orders in place to require social distancing...

For all the morans running around screaming "TYRANNY" about their "FREEDOM" to NOT wear masks in public and all, there's actually few laws in place to enforce these things. It's meant to be voluntary, in that PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO RESPECT THE REALITY THAT SOCIAL CONTACT CAN SPREAD THE VIRUS, SO JUST FCKING DON'T DO IT. /headdesk

And of course Florida - even though we've been better than most in being that voluntary and self-aware about social distancing - even the Sunshine State had to go crazy for Memorial Day weekend because guess what happened out at Daytona Beach already:

...Police believe the crowd that shutdown traffic in the city was part of an unofficial event shared on social media.

“Traffic is completely shut down with probably 200 people in the middle of the road,” a voice from the helicopter said over radio. “Trying to figure out what’s going on. It’s people, looks like they’re climbing on top of a car,” the pilot can be heard saying over the radio...

Subsequent Twitter posts showed mobs of shoulder-to-shoulder crowds.

And this can't be the only place. Think of how many states have famous gathering spots, beaches and parks that thousands go to for the big summertime events... I'm in Florida, from Jacksonville to Daytona to Cocoa to Melbourne to Palm Beach to Pompano Beach to South Beach to the Keys to Sanibel to Sarasota to ALL of Pinellas County's gulf side to Weeki Wachee to Panama Beach to Pensacola, goddamn we are Beach Party Central and I dread how many residents went crazy this weekend just out of decades of social conditioning to party on a three-day weekend.

What the GODDAMN HELL, America.

You're getting told by a number of Republican politicians that "all is well" and you lot go on a Darwin-Award-worthy jaunt that will get half of you showing COVID fevers within the next 5-14 days.

This is the second wave we've been warned about. And we were nowhere near finishing the first wave of the pandemic.

We are so royally fucked.