> aggressively ignorant and anti-science parents This is what came to mind for me. I've lived in Georgia my whole life. In fact my hometown is right on the cou

> aggressively ignorant and anti-science parents This is what came to mind for me. I've lived in Georgia my whole life. In fact my hometown is right on the county line of Paulding County. There have been plenty of quips about the unenforceability of a mask mandate, but they can enforce rules against spaghetti strap tops or above-the-knee shorts. The first thing that came to mind when I read it was Road Rage Randy bursting into the principal's office demanding to know why his son was told he'd have to wear a dangerous, oxygen-restricting, anti-freedom muzzle to come to school this morning. It might be unenforceable just because of unhinged dads. Judging by the stream of Facebook posts and arguments in comment threads among my own family, people I went to church with as a child, and other connections from "outside the city," the anti-scientific beliefs are deeply entrenched here. The zeitgeist is some kind of rapidly evolving mixture of: it's just a flu, the numbers are faked, masks rob you of oxygen, there's nothing you can do about a virus we just have to live with it like we do colds every year, vaccines weaken your immune system. To compound the madness, this crap is all mixed with reactions to Black Lives Matter protests. I'm losing it.