Protesting

IN THE PLAY "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail". Thoreau, in jail, looks through the window bars of his jail cell at his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson asks: "What are you doing in there?" Henry David Thoreau answers with a question: "What are you doing out there?" He's asking him why he too did not protest the Mexican War, and get thrown in jail. I've been wondering the same thing about my friends and fellow progressives. Where were you at all the protests I got sun burned attending, screaming my lungs out? Black lives matter, man. In seven protests in three local towns, I haven't seen a single friend. I have no interest in excuses. So what if we're all over sixty five, and busy to boot? I once said that I never met a protest I didn't like, all protests are good, fighting injustice, but that has now changed.  I stand corrected. Recent right wing protests against social distancing, quarantining, and face masking are insane, absurd, like right wing values in general. The argument that quarantining is harmful to the economy and that face masking in an infringement upon freedom is lunacy. Not quarantining or wearing face mask is directly causing the epidemic to worsen, as we see now. Goethe said that freedom is nothing other than the opportunity to do what is reasonable under all circumstances. It is not reasonable to have the freedom to not wear a face mask in public. They're all Trump supporters, these unreasonable people, concerned more with their vanity and pride than with the lives of millions of people. Trump noticed that teh epidemic is getting worse, and blamed it on testing, so he stopped federal funding for testing, while having his insane rallies in buildings full of unmasked people. That is sheer lunacy, criminal, a deliberate attempt to kill Americans. Trump and his supporters are brining about the destruction of the United States, and are therefore criminals, and traitors.