My sister went to her eye doctor today. Sign on the door said since the county had lifted mask mandates, patients and employees weren’t required to wear masks. Basically, if you want to you can. If you want your doctor to wear one, just ask.
Not one person in the building was wearing a mask. People were laughing and behaving normally again.
RE: My sister went to her eye doctor today. Sign on the door said since the county had lifted mask mandates,
What state does your sister live in?
Sadly, here in TX, masks are still “required” at doctors offices. Such a foolish joke!
Every large practice manager needs to receive a copy of this study.
Enough with the absurd virtue signaling.
I was driving to the hardware store yesterday and observed a guy on the sidewalk walk a good 10 feet into the roadway to avoid passing next to another walker on the sidewalk. He put his life in a million times more danger walking in the road next to cars going 25-30 mph than passing by another walker for a half-second.
People have zero sense of risk and zero common sense.
Decades ago I took a class in Game Theory and we studied the work of Kahneman and Tversky. They did seminal work on what they called “Prospect Theory,” how people avoid risks when the probability of that risk is very low. They found people cannot properly evaluate low risks. This guy in the street was a textbook example of taking a high-risk action to avoid a very low-risk problem.
Mask wearing, especially by yourself in the car or when walking outdoors by yourself, falls into the same category.