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Greg Evans
May 13, 2020
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The coronavirus lockdown has caused numerous people to act in a variety of ways, especially in the United States.
You either hunker down and get on with, saving yourself from any potential infection or get so angry that you decide to go outside and protest the fact that you can't get the virus because you are being told to stay away from others.
This brings us to a trip to a department store by a Fox News radio host who wanted to buy a toaster oven but had such a bad experience with social distancing that he claimed the United States of America had been 'destroyed.'
On Friday, Todd Starnes recounted an attempt to buy toaster oven where he was made to stand an appropriate distance away from other customers and also wear a mask and apply hand sanitiser. Why he couldn't have ordered the toaster online is a mystery.
In his despair, he claimed that America had been lost and apparently gave up on his effort to buy a toaster oven.
Unfortunately for Starnes his anguish didn't resonate with many who were more than happy to mock the conservative for having to stand in a line and protect himself from a virus that has already killed more 292,000 people worldwide.
@toddstarnes “The country as we know it has been destroyed” “Care to elaborate?” “I had to stand in a line for a toaster”— James Felton (@James Felton) 1589004909
@toddstarnes Todd, please DM me your address. I'll send you a top of the line toaster in exchange for you to stop w… https://t.co/nbIHprmP0f— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@Yashar Ali 🐘) 1588981250
@toddstarnes I’m so sorry for your loss.— Kevin M. Kruse (@Kevin M. Kruse) 1588996984
@toddstarnes Over 78,000 Americans no longer have a life anymore because they died from #Covid_19. But so sorry you… https://t.co/QcytkYbuJc— Ted Lieu (@Ted Lieu) 1588986640
During the Siege of Leningrad, my grandparents ate wallpaper glue. https://t.co/Mxw4pRPbKc— Alexander Nazaryan (@Alexander Nazaryan) 1588985229
Snowflake https://t.co/oniRpxXamO— Carol Costello (@Carol Costello) 1588999508
You poor dear! Do you think you'll survive this trauma? Maybe if 78,000 more Americans die of COVID-19 without lov… https://t.co/cnV2MbphvT— Cheri Jacobus (@Cheri Jacobus) 1589041372
Our grandfathers fought Hitler, and this wad of pudding can't handle one-way aisles when he toaster shops. https://t.co/YGJ1w7oPms— Craig Mazin (@Craig Mazin) 1588998976
I value freedom more than damn near anybody, but grow the fuck up Todd. Think of your fellow Americans. We’re all i… https://t.co/QZzY0vDNZW— Joe Walsh (@Joe Walsh) 1588983099
78,000 people have died and 20,000,000 people are out of work but yeah it’s a super bummer you have to use hand san… https://t.co/2kpioostqf— ERIC BALFOUR (@ERIC BALFOUR) 1588999443
I knew a dozen people who’ve died. 250 people I worked with and I are unemployed as are most friends and colleagues… https://t.co/kXpZyfjycC— Warren Leight (@Warren Leight) 1588989173
Did you get murdered while jogging? No, then shut the F up! https://t.co/zIDU1SQxtP— Lance Storm (@Lance Storm) 1588988030
If America as you know it can be destroyed by one-way aisles and hand sanitizer, maybe you didn't know it very well… https://t.co/kjGjZVJUk5— Jeremy Konyndyk (@Jeremy Konyndyk) 1588996488
Todd Starnes is 52 years old. Yet, the spirit apparently never moved him to purchase a toaster oven until in the m… https://t.co/Qzj9aeLkHw— The Hoarse Whisperer (@The Hoarse Whisperer) 1588993026
Despite all this, it's not entirely obvious why he left the store without the toaster oven that he so desperately needed.
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