I have found myself surprisingly busy on call-free elective, but not busy enough to not notice this picture on one of my favorite gossipy websites, people.com.  Okay, I don’t even know who these people are but they are complete morons.

They are “Heidi Montag” and “Spencer Pratt” — self-important reality-TV idiots or maybe soap opera stars, I have no idea, vacationing in Cabo San Lucas.  And they are doing this in the middle of the swine flu epidemic, while all “non-essential” travel to Mexico has been recommended to be suspended by the U.S. government.  First of all, I am not sure if a “pre-honeymoon vacation,” which is what this trip was described as by my illustrious internet news source, counts as “essential” travel to Mexico.  Maybe it’s important for B-list celebrities to do such “essential” business travel.  Second of all, they are wearing “protective” masks while near-naked on a sandy beach.  As if that were going to save their lives as local indigenous workers who lost their farms and had to get a job at this energy-sucking resort are coughing into their margaritas.  Oh, and that towel-boy who handed you your towel as you stepped off the beach into your private cabana-suite?  His mom just died that day of swine flu.  Third: what the frak are you doing prancing about on vacation in skimpy clothing while the country around you is dealing with a pandemic?  I am overwhelmed by the magnitudes of error in this tableau.