Your Neighbors are Not the Disease

This weekend, vast numbers of my fellow Britons went to the park. As pubs and other entertainment venues closed, public parks from London to Yorkshire to Wales saw attendance records broken as visitors milled around openly flouting social distancing rules. Photos circulating on social media, taken by those who had noticed the large numbers of people irresponsibly visiting the sites they themselves had decided to irresponsibly visit, appeared to depict a nation determined to make itself sick, thoughtless strangers brushing up against each other with their placid, poorly bodies, at best loosely concealing their mounting dry coughs with no-doubt unwashed hands. Read Full Article »