It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Friday, April 3rd.

Now McKay Coppins from the Atlantic, who has an article called Social D distancing

Culture War has begun on how keeping your six feet or not is becoming a political statement, at least for some people, and some religious groups.

And McKay, welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks for having me.

Your article begins at a golf course in the suburbs of Atlanta.

Want to tell us that story and what it represents?

Yeah, so I spoke to a guy named Jeff Frost, who is a member of a country club in a kind of affluent

suburb of Atlanta.

And he told me that a couple weeks ago he was at the golf course, and he said the country club had recently instituted kind of a bunch of new policies to encourage social distancing.

So the restaurant was closed, the commuter water jugs were gone, and the golfers, people who were at the golf course, were told to limit themselves to one person per

car. Basically, the idea is to keep people spread out, right? What this guy Frost told me is that

while he was there at the driving range, the younger kind of democratic leaners like himself

were all very conscientiously following the social distancing

guidelines. They were slathering on hand sanitizer. They were keeping six feet apart from each other.

But there was a group of older Republicans that he had known some of them for many years.

And they, you know, they had their political differences, but it generally gotten along.

But what he said was that this group of older Republicans was kind of making a show of gleefully breaking the new rules.

So they made a show of shaking hands and were kind of complaining about the hoax that was being propagated by alarmists around the coronavirus and then he said when

their tea times came up they all kind of piled into golf carts together close together how long ago is

this this is just a last weekend I got her two weekends ago now huh and you point out that social

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