COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

I can't stand Cruz, but he's been unapologetic about personal freedom no matter who it involves. I'm not so sure imprisoning a business owner was the right call here. Fine the business and move on to the next case.

Fwiw, I saw video of Cruz getting the haircut and everyone including Cruz was wearing a mask, so this in a roundabout way is showing businesses that they will still need to be smart about reopening and require masks and/or reasonable distancing and disinfecting SOPs. Hopefully this encourages people to continue taking this seriously as things slowly open back up.

I don't know how effective it will be, but other countries requiring widespread mask usage have done ok.
Imo there is nothing to applaud about an opportunistic politician using a person’s reckless act of defiance that was/is endangering her community to signal boost and harden his concerted attempt to turn scientifically backed practices meant to save lives and minimize harm in a pandemic into a partisan wedge issue he can score brownie points for by enflaming and then politically profiting from that well poisoning.