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but you can only do so much when someone acts like that with a reckless disregard for those around

But just how reckless is that disregard?

Dallas County is a 'hotspot' for new cases. Currently, they have had 35M positive tests, and include a population of 2.6MM. (Ignoring people coming in and out of the surrounding Collin/Rockwall/Tarrant/etc). So, this means that for any given person you bump into, they have a 1.34% chance of having the ChinaVirus. But wait! Only about 40% of those have been in the past two weeks, so now that person only has a .54% chance of being an active case. But wait some more! 850 of those people are currently hospitalized, so that knocks your chances down by another .03%, and if we considered that many people who are positive are quarantined, that likely knocks that .51% down by 90% or so.

So you bumping into someone in Dallas County, a known 'hotspot', has a tiny chance of being a positive testee. Asymptomatic carrier? Definitely more likely, but from several articles it sounds like they are very low-risk for infection spread.

Most of the new cases are people who have been going to house/block parties, rioting, or other big events with lots of people packed together. Walking around the grocery store or down the street is almost a nil chance of catching ChinaVirus.

Those statistics mean nothing to me.

If I am standing at my grocery cart and an employee turns around less than a foot from me and yells his germs with a straight shot to the side of my unprotected face and my eyes and mouth..and he has covid...I absolutely could catch it. I have a better chance of not catching it with a mask and face shield but because it was to the side of my face I could still absolutely catch it.

There is someone here who has permanent eye damage after getting a shot to the side of his face from some Asians behind him in auditorium seating. This was back in November or december. There were students from Wuhan there.

What were his chances of catching it???? When very few in the US had it and no one even knew about it.