“Make us stupid”
Indeed. I was putting the trash cabins out on the curb last evening. A guy was walking down the street by himself all masked up on my side of the street. He got within about 100 feet of me, saw me (no mask) putting the bins out, and he promptly crossed to the other side of the street!
Outdoors, stiff breeze, two people passing by for 100 milliseconds — there is ZERO chance of catching it.
There are two million people in Santa Clara County. We are now getting 5 new cases a day. There are probably 200 active cases in the county, so your chance of randomly encountering a sick person is 1/10,000.
Our town of 20,000 has had a cumulative case count of 445. Maybe there are 2 active cases today, again 1/10,000.
The sheer stupidity of people like that guy on the street is astonishing. His risk of stepping in front of a passing car by crossing the street is FAR higher that catching COVID from a guy putting out the garbage.
The problem is we have so many people who simply don’t use the brains they were given.
“Outdoors, stiff breeze, two people passing by for 100 milliseconds — there is ZERO chance of catching it.
“There are two million people in Santa Clara County. We are now getting 5 new cases a day. There are probably 200 active cases in the county, so your chance of randomly encountering a sick person is 1/10,000.
“Our town of 20,000 has had a cumulative case count of 445. Maybe there are 2 active cases today, again 1/10,000.”
I’ve learned, after many frustrating years, that most people, even really intelligent ones, don’t usually think that way. Rationally, I mean. Thinking is hard, especially when fear or pride or greed get in the way.