Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose rarely uses social media, but when he does, it's usually either to wish someone a happy birthday or to bash a conservative politician.
Rose fired up his Twitter account Sunday to light up Kentucky Senator Rand Paul for criticizing his state's social distancing measures geared towards stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Americans across the country were advised to continue to observe social distancing on Easter Sunday over coronavirus fears.
But Sen. Paul, who is himself recovering from COVID-19, took umbrage with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear's warning that residents who attended church in-person would be forced to self-quarantine for 14 days.
"Taking license plates at church?" Paul questioned via Twitter, along with many other personal liberty advocates. "Quarantining someone for being Christian on Easter Sunday? Someone needs to take a step back here."
Rose later replied: "Step bk? As usual Rand Paul needs to step off."
With nearly 2,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in Kentucky and nearly 100 deaths, compulsory quarantines are not intended to discourage religious practice but to mitigate community spread of the virus.
Paul tested positive for the novel coronavirus on March 22 after attending an event with others who subsequently tested positive for the virus. According to his chief of staff, Paul had no direct contact with either individual.
On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo noted that the first epicenter for COVID-19 in his state was not in densely populated New York City but in suburban New Rochelle, NY. The outbreak began reverberating in the community after a large group of people attended a funeral there.
"In New Rochelle, one person or two people who were infected were in dense gatherings with hundreds of people and [the virus] spread like wildfire," he said. "It's not just a dense city or a dense community, it's any person in a dense environment."
To date, the novel coronavirus has sickened more than 542,000 in America and killed more than 21,000.
Over the weekend, a pork processing facility in South Dakota was forced to close after about 240 employees became ill with the virus. The closure is raising questions about the sustainability of the country's meat supply going forward.
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