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[quote=Anonymous]I live in a dense urban neighborhood and this is my experience every night when I go for my run. I stay off the main commercial road through our neighborhood explicitly to avoid people, but I often cross it on my route and every time I pass a restaurant its packed inside (or the "outdoor" enclosed tent is packed, which, same difference). It's like traveling to another country.

On Saturday I saw literal crowds of college kids spilling out of bars, I presume because of the college football championships. They were drunk, hugging, unmasked, piling into cars 3-4 at a time. It was so stunning I actually stopped in my tracks. There were cops there that were theoretically breaking it up, but it's clear those kids were just leaving bars to go to private parties. And I'm sure most of them are traveling to see their parents for the holidays, maybe even grandparents too.

Honestly, I don't even blame these stupid, stupid kids, or the people crowding restaurants. And I don't blame the restaurants, who are just trying to pay their employees and their bills and stay alive.

I blame Congress and the President and our state and local leaders and our media, who have refused to do the hard thing, the responsible thing, and spend the money necessary to keep people home. We are the richest country on the planet. We could close bars and restaurants, limit travel, and pay people to stay home. We could save tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of lives this way. And we just choose not to.

We live in a dystopia.[/quote]

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