“Give me liberty or give me corona”

Jeff Eskew, a 52-year-old from Oklahoma City, dismissed the virus. “I’ve been watching this closely over the last four months or so, and the numbers just don’t add up to me.”

“Give me liberty or give me corona,” he said, paraphrasing the famous phrase of revolution from Patrick Henry…

“I’ve been home all myself during quarantine and I wanted a reason to go somewhere,” Ms. Moore said. “I just don’t believe in the virus thing. I’d go to Europe. I’d get on a plane. I’d do whatever.”

Cloth masks were given to every attendee at the security entrance, but few sported them inside. Asked where his free mask went, Mr. Eskew laughed.

“I threw it in the trash,” he said.