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Since the start of Colorado’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve been reporting about the safety practices recommended by state health officials, as well as the people who haven’t been following them.
How can you spot these folks in advance, so you can be sure to keep at least six feet away? To help you succeed at what could turn out to be a literal life-or-death task, we’ve assembled a primer on the Denver COVID-19 asshole, using the creature’s most common physical characteristics.
It’s a pictorial field guide to a beast that seems to be reproducing at a frightening pace.
Photo by Michael Roberts
EYES
The Denver COVID-19 asshole specializes in disapproving side-eye looks typically aimed at individuals wearing a mask, which they see as the pandemic equivalent of a burning American flag.
Photo by Michael Roberts
NOSE AND MOUTH
Uncovered, naturally, with the upper lip curling into a sneer whenever they see dudes kowtowing to what they consider freedom-killing practices that violate the independent Western spirit.
Photo by Michael Roberts
NECK
No mask at the ready to put on should the situation require it – because the situation never requires it!
CHEST
The prototypical Denver COVID-19 asshole loves to wear T-shirts with messages they think are profound but actually reveal how clueless and out of touch they actually are.
Photo by Deb Roberts
HANDS
At grocery stores, Denver COVID-19 assholes definitely don’t wear gloves, nor do they care about picking up items and then putting them back on shelves, where other shoppers will be touching them without knowing whose mitts got there first.
Photo by Deb Roberts
ASS
Generally sticking out and in the way, making it all but impossible for others to get around it while socially distancing. Not that a Denver COVID-19 asshole gives a damn – because America means being able to park your ass wherever you want!
Photo by Michael Roberts
DICK
Yes, most Denver COVID-19 assholes have one. Or are one.
