Ok, I stand corrected. The one confirmed news story about the violent anti-mask incident (store employees being attacked for wearing PPE) was in Oklahoma, which is midwest. Howeverm a large number of the strident anti-PPE and flubro members on FR are in the south (with several also posting from the west coast).
I want to apologize for seeming to conflate normal southern people and crazy people who happen to post on FR. I can understand people in Democrat controlled areas being angry about the heavy handed response? But why the freak-out response from flubros in the south?
I also get tired of reading the main page posts of these sickos on FR who are claiming that the deaths in NY, Chicago, or here in Iowa aren’t really happening, or it doesn’t matter because they are old, or sick, or the wrong skin color, or that doctors and nurses are making up the death statistics, lying about symptoms, etc. The main page is filled with crazy vanities and links to fly-by-night blog sites. Has this site turned from a conservative/Trump supporter’s site to some strange conspiracy theory nuthouse?
Nah, don’t even worry. There’s not a single thing to apologize for.
As far as hostility towards people wearing masks, I don’t even understand. What is someone going to do, walk up to a little old lady, or a little old man, or a cashier in a mask and go all hostile on them? Such an action, in my opinion, would be outrageous.
These events this years have affected us all in a number of different ways. Some people afraid of this, other people furious at that, people seeing people they saw as friends four months ago now as enemies or opposing factions.
It’s a truly remarkable series of events. It reminds me in a way of a particular episode of The Twilight Zone Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, where a neighborhood is slowly turned against each other during an alien invasion where the aliens are simply toying with the neighborhood watching them go mad.
A very similar thing is happening here. Normalcy has been drastically altered, and the effect is tremendous.
Unfortunately, it is not just FR posters that are the issue.
I can’t listen to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity without my blood boiling.
I understand the need to balance the economic impact with the health care system impact.
They do not—imho—and are focusing on oversimplifying “lockdown vs liberty” and making it a partisan issue.
It should not be a partisan issue imho—but amazingly they can’t figure out the obvious tactical problem—if it is a partisan issue the Republicans will lose.
“The main page is filled with crazy vanities and links to fly-by-night blog sites. Has this site turned from a conservative/Trump supporter’s site to some strange conspiracy theory nuthouse?”
That is happening on Facebook also, I see friends posting same stuff. Had one friend unfriend me I pointed out how crazy the 5G stuff was.
Our local radio station Word in Greenville SC has a morning show 7 to 11 with the conspiracy theory every morning.
It is wide spread.