Compare and Contrast

You have to read this op-ed titled On the COVID frontlines, we’re tired of hearing lame excuses for risky behavior, by L.A. physician Mark Morocco. Here's an excerpt: 

"In emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country, frontline nurses, respiratory therapists and doctors like me have been in danger every day for eight months. Smothered in PPE, we’re doused in coronavirus every day while we take care of the very sick, the worried well and the dying. Some of the dead aren’t patients; some are colleagues, friends and our own families.
We are furious and we are exhausted. And now we face again the flooding of our hospitals.
We’re tired of seeing patients who got the virus after their kid’s 'limited' birthday party or because they went out to a restaurant dinner with 'close friends' or flew to a celebration in a state 'that didn’t have much COVID.'
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Stop being crybabies about a little inconvenience. We already have more than 250,000 reasons to weep — and to be thankful we are alive and can still do something about it.
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As I put on my PPE before a shift in the ER, I think of seasick WWII soldiers, riding toward a beach as other young men on shore tried to kill them in the surf. Compared to what they faced, what I do is easy.
Then, no one knew how long the war would last or if they would survive. People back home collected rubber and bacon grease for years, gave up countless liberties and luxuries, and no one ever called the war a hoax, even if they never saw a Nazi in their backyard.
We’re eight months into COVID. World War II lasted six years and a day. The Great Depression lasted 10 years. The 1918 flu lasted two years and two months.
Are we really that soft? That careless? That selfish?"

Now contrast that stark editorial with this: Staten Island protesters rally after Mac's bar shut down for defying covid rules.  From what I could see, these bellowing fools were mostly maskless.

Then there's this: "The New York Young Republican Club held its 108th annual gala in-person on Thursday evening. 'Catch us if you can,' one attendee tweeted with a photo of over 20 unmasked guests, directing her comments to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo."

This makes me sick. If selfish, defiant people like this can't be arrested, at least make them visit the COVID ward of any hospital to see what patients and healthcare workers like Mark Morocco are enduring.