Two Views of COVID

I read two Washington Post articles recently that made me angry. The first was about the shocking surge of COVID cases in California: "Coronavirus cases in California are surging to record highs and hospitals are overrun. At St. Mary Medical Center, a hospital in the desert town of Apple Valley, the ICU has burst its capacity. Patients undergo triage in a parking lot tent, and the hospital’s lobbies and hallways have become makeshift covid wards. Exhausted staff fear the worst is still to come." See the accompanying video here. 

The other article was titled Minnesota bar sued by state over indoor dining ban refuses to close: ‘We want to let freedom ring’. "Over the TV sets playing at Alibi Drinkery on Wednesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) announced that his state would continue to ban indoor dining in its battle against the coronavirus. But inside the sports bar, the crowd of people watching his address had a different idea. Standing shoulder to shoulder, they sang along as Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blared from the speakers that night. In a since-deleted video posted by co-owner Lisa Monet Zarza, customers at the Lakeville, Minn. watering hole raised their fists and Bud Light bottles in defiance."

By the time I finished the second article, I was wishing those bar patrons could be locked up in St Mary Medical Center and forced to see where their reckless unconcern leads.