Holiday revelers flouted social distancing. Now, Missouri officials are urging them to quarantine.

The mayor of St. Louis (which is distinct from St. Louis County) issued a similar quarantine advisory.

And Kansas City’s health director deployed the hashtag #COVIDIDIOTS, tweeting, “Anyone who didn’t practice CDC, DHSS, and KCMO Health Department social distancing guidance should self quarantine for 14 days if they have any compassion for others.”

Lake of the Ozarks, a popular regional vacation spot, drew larger-than-expected numbers of partiers. In widely circulated videos, many of them lacked masks and didn’t maintain social distancing, although the Osage Beach mayor told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that other spots saw better adherence to the rules.

The state health director, Randall Williams, warned in a statement Monday that if healthy, asymptomatic people contract the virus at such gatherings and transmit it to vulnerable people, “this is when we tend to see the long-lasting and tragic impact of these decisions that are being made.”

In neighboring Kansas, the Department of Health and Environment recommended a 14-day quarantine if Lake of the Ozarks travelers didn’t take preventive measures, which the secretary said “risks setting our community back substantially.”

The admonitions cut to the heart of America’s central tensions as states and localities lift restrictions: whether the public can handle a phased transition back to normalcy, and how much additional coronavirus spread (and death) people are willing to accept.

In Houston on Sunday, Mayor Sylvester Turner said fire marshals would start enforcing restrictions at establishments exceeding their 25 percent occupancy limit. The city had received more than 100 complaints since Friday about rules not being followed.

And Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation on Sunday closed trails and nature areas in Eaton Canyon “due to overwhelming crowds that were not following the COVID-19 public health requirements.” On Tuesday morning, they extended the closure through the end of the month.

Source: politico.com
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