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Corona in the USA

It's funny now that I look back. When I first started writing blogs, I wrote about what ever was on the news, or whatever was easiest. Then it became random. It talked about cooked chicken, stye, and tea. Now it's just focused on political news or anything that is trending now. I feel like a bandwagoner. 
If you aren't familiar with the term, bandwagon is a term referring to anything that is currently trending or fashionable. A bandwagoner, or someone who jumps on the bandwagon, refers to someone who is only following a specific topic because it is trending. 
Today I'm not going to talk about the statistics for corona, but rather our response to it. 
As everyone probably knows, Trump didn't handle corona that well. On many occasions he didn't wear a mask, even when others around him wanted him to. He conveyed the message that corona wasn't a real threat to many of his supporters. I'm guessing that he was a big reason, or at least influenced the way some people are dealing with corona. But now, even after Trump has started wearing a mask, corona counts aren't going down. 
 Trump definitely handled this so very terribly. There are so many things that he could've done which would probably result in much lower corona counts. If he had done a few things differently, the first 5 months of school wouldn't be remote. But at the end of the day, he has started handling this better, yet people aren't.
This is what annoys me. Many people hang out in groups, and I see this. Just a week ago, when I went hiking, I walked past a group of at least 20 people. Whenever I go to the park, I see groups of people talking with each other. 
What annoys me even more is that some of the people that hang out with each other without wearing masks and social distancing are people that consider themselves "woke". They are people that have been criticizing what our executive branch has done during this pandemic, but they aren't even helping it themselves. They probably think that their friends won't have corona, so it's safe to hang out with them, but that's what everyone thinks. Everyone gives exceptions to themselves. They think that although there has been about 4.5 million cases in the United States, meaning that 1 in every 70 people has corona, they still think that their friends and themselves most likely won't have corona. 
Some of these people continue to criticize what Trump has done, while not even aiding in the problem themselves. 
During this pandemic, I've been doing my duty as a citizen during a pandemic, I have reduced physical contact with people. Most of the time I stay in my home and do things there. If I have to leave the house, I still try to remain at least 6 feet away from other people.

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