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“How Am I Violating Social Distancing When I Go Fishing, by Myself, on My Boat”

There are two kinds of social distancing.

1. An effort to prevent the spread of the Wuhan Virus by encouraging people to maintain physical distance from each other.

2. A totalitarian social hysteria which has seen people arrested for surfing and a crackdown on drive-in church services that has nothing medical or rational to it. The “Stay at Home” shrill hysteria is not medical. It’s hysterical.

How, some Marylanders are asking, is boating a threat to anyone?

“It’s completely safe to be out on the water by yourself if you’re taking the normal boating precautions,” said fishing guide Steve Chaconas of NationalBass.com.

Chaconas is among the fishermen and boaters who have been inundating Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources with appeals and comments asking for modifications of Governor Larry Hogan’s stay-at-home order.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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