My logic here is that if you have even just a 1% chance of catching a cold from someone in a grocery store, that ends up being a pretty high chance then when you apply that 1% chance to every interaction you have with a sick person in a store (passing by, looking at the same thing, making small talk, waiting in line together, etc). So if that's true (1% or higher chance), how would it be possible to not get sick from a family member, friend, coworker that you've spent over an hour with in the same room? But that does happen quite often. The grocery store chance has to be well well well below 1% chance would it not? My problem with much of the covid response was that it focused on things that, yes do technically matter, but matter so little, it would hardly make a difference. People actually eating healthy would have a far greater impact on covid spread and severity than wearing a mask to Walmart, the former was ignored and the latter was focused on. Focus on the things that have the bigger impact 1st and work your way down, we did the opposite and focused on the little things that may have done nothing or done very little.
Obviously anecdotal, but I'm sure we all remember several instances of someone you've spent a prolonged period of time with that was sick and you didn't catch it, which is the point I was making. I got one very mild cold this whole cold season (from fall last year through spring this year) and I was with sick people for hours at a time at least 10s of times. The hotel room is probably as ventilated as any other (I have no idea the amount/quality of ventilation in hotel rooms). The con has over 70,000 people that you're sitting at tables for hours playing games with. Then, you have the vendor hall that is like a grocery store on steroids where you have 100s of booths of people selling games and whatnot that you are constantly bumping into people just navigating around. The fact that she tested positive the day after the con ended on Monday means she was almost certainly contagious while we were all in the room because with covid, you don't test positive when don't have symptoms (even though you are contagious). That's why covid testing was pointless because it's not going to tell you that you're positive before symptoms. And once you have symptoms, you know you're sick so stay home and away from people, what does it matter whether it's covid or the flu or rhinovirus? And even if you know whether it's covid or the flu, that doesn't change what you do to treat it either, testing was a waste of time and resources. Literally the one thing to be taken from the covid pandemic and applied thereafter is stay the fuck home when you're sick. But no, people go to work when sick still just like covid never existed. My friend that is a teacher, his school uses covid money funds to provide teachers with a $5,000 year bonus if they call off under X amount of times in a year. Covid money is literally being used to make the spreading of covid and other colds easier, that is how backwards everything is.
Here's a picture of people waiting for the vendor hall to open for example:
Anyone at GenCon this year? I think for the first time ever all badges were sold out before the con. Here's a couple pics of people bunching up for the annual running of the nerds.
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