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The US has now passed 12,5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, with more than 262 000 deaths.

In the last week alone, there have been more than one million new COVID-19 cases, and across the country, medical workers are begging their fellow citizens to wear masks and practice basic COVID-19 safety protocol.

Then you get someone like 61-year-old Raymond Deskins, pictured above wearing an inflatable toy around his midriff in support of Donald Trump.

He has been charged with misdemeanour assault following an altercation outside of Trump’s golf club in Virginia on Saturday, for “forcefully exhaling” on two women who were protesting the president’s refusal to admit he lost the US election.

This from the Guardian:

Deskins, 61, was charged with misdemeanor assault after a private citizen obtained a warrant through a county magistrate, the Loudoun county sheriff’s office said on Sunday…

The state of Virginia mandates masks be worn in certain locations to stop the spread of the coronavirus. However they are not required to be worn outside.

There’s not wearing a mask, and then there’s this, a real classy display of ‘spreading a deadly pandemic to own the libs’:

Here is video of the incident in front of @realDonaldTrump’s golf course in Sterling pic.twitter.com/p2Hj9Z0INX

— Lindsay Watts (@LindsayAWatts) November 22, 2020

Again, there is a pandemic that has killed more than 260 000 Americans, and healthcare workers across the country are literally begging people to wear masks.

It appears that decency is in short supply these days.

[source:guardian]