I have found for some time that in most small towns in my region, nobody cares if you wear a mask. Some people do, some don’t. Personal preference, as it should be.
But I found a quantum leap the other day which made me happy, which was a fully stocked Chinese buffet. They had everything, and all the tables were occupied. The only concession to COVID they made was they asked you to wear a plastic glove when handling the ladles, which actually does make a bit of sense for ALL diseases (even if I’m not afraid of other diseases either).
Here is what I will say: one of the reasons we have a Columbus Day is not just because he discovered the New (to Europe) World, but because it took BALLS to sail off into the West when everyone was telling him he was doomed to sail off the edge of the world, or get eaten by dragons.
Fear of the unknown is one of the most powerful human emotions. Not taking chances has a lot of evolutionary value, but in reality, TAKIKNG chances that pay off ALSO has a lot of value, and in point of fact that is how we evolved from cave people to skyscrapers and astronauts, with countless risks in the middle.
With every step forward someone was forecasting doom, and somebody else–almost invariably a man–was saying “fuck it”.
There was a time people thought going 50mph (or something like that) on a train would kill you. They didn’t know what would happen if you broke the sound barrier. Etc. Etc.
The thing with COVID is it is invisible. But it not REALLY fully invisible. Most of the time if someone is going to spread it, they are sick. Yes, there is the very, very small group of presymptomatic people, but they are insignificant in my view. I think it is masked people with mild symptoms doing all the spreading.
But here is my point: until you take the chance of TRYING something new, like Texas did, you never know how large the danger is. I think it is really, really close to zero for healthy people who take Vitamin D and zinc.
Everyone is saying “you’ll sail off the edge of the Earth if you reopen now. There are dragons. It’s doomed, doomed, doomed.”
We need more people saying “fuck it”. I am very, very sure all will work out fine.
And one last point: we are being told that HCQ is dangerous and the vaccines are safe. Ponder that. One drug that has been given to billions of people over the past 55 years, and one that was just invented somewhere around last July or August.
This whole thing is insanity. I sigh every day seeing how fucking stupid the world is being.