[RummyChick]

I wear a face shield and a mask. But I got a shot from the side.

I prefer not to get Covid until this thing mutates to a lesser version

I prefer not to risk my health and my finances

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

however, i made sure the incident was documented for future reference

[IrishBrigade]

‘I prefer not to get Covid until this thing mutates to a lesser version’

so you are going around assuming everyone you run into at a supermarket has this virus...? has it ever occurred to you how unlikely that is...?

also, if you see someone with a mask, but with the nostrils free to breathe, do you feel the urge to call the manager and give that person the business about ‘proper mask etiquette’...?

[Svartalfiar]

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.