A Bus Driver Told a Rider to Wear a Mask. Then the Passenger Spit on Her.
8th May 2020
Moral: Don’t try to tell your riders what to do unless it’s related to the performance of the bus.
The Lamestream Media delight in these stories, which they think display poor behavior on the part of ordinary citizens. What they actually display is the sort of petty tyranny in which bottom-tier government employees often indulge themselves when they conceive themselves to be in a position of authority, however shallow or temporary. Americans are happy to suck it up and cooperate in the face of an actual emergency; what they aren’t good at is allowing themselves to be hectored by functionaries who are just being bossy for the sake of being bossy.