One aspect of human behavior that has been brought to light by the lockdown is ignorance concerning how exactly contagion works. Another is people complaining about empty gyms being closed down while crowded supermarkets are not. Hey, people—We need to shop for food, but we don’t need to go to the gym.
Because they have not to date developed symptoms, some sanctimonious people I know are now expressing vindication over their friends’ and families’ previously warning them or lecturing them for going out to bars, parties and such even as headlines screamed that public gathering places were being ordered to shut down.
To hear these people—weeks after many of us changed our behaviors due to being inundated with the undeniable realities of the pandemic—as seen on TV, online, in the newspapers, on the street—now try and claim they had “no idea” or “if we realized what was going on we would have taken precautions sooner,” as many at this very late date are attempting to rationalize, reveals everything we need to know about them.
Acquiring the virus on our hands, then touching other people or door handles or shopping carts would have caused us to transfer the virus. If we soon after washed our hands or refrained from touching our food or putting our fingers in our mouths, we might not have ingested the virus and therefore not gotten sick. But that doesn’t mean those people or items we went on to touch were not infected by us, that we did not sicken others.
I continue to see and read about the irresponsible and simple-minded rejecting facts as delivered by medical professionals and scientists in favor of the ludicrous rantings of political figures. I’ll be kind here and assume they are so terrified of the reality of what is happening that they find solace in denial, in the the stupid and the irresponsible.
