Bored with social distancing? Those without masks, rubbing shoulders with each other outside state capitols and demanding a swift reopening of the economy, might answer that they’re bored to death. One hopes that isn’t literally true, but their gatherings do make infection more likely.

Acknowledging that some protesters are reckless is not to say they are wrong. Governors such as Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer have been capricious, banning harmless activities such as the purchase of seeds to plant in the garden. (In the Left’s telling, naturally, it is President Trump who is the authoritarian.)