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My friend there says Fremont street and the Strip is packed again.
Just had a gentle conversation with a friend who has repeatedly been posting pitures from his dining out adventures. He recently posted about dining at a local restaurant, filled to the current capacity, and being glad that he wasn't part of a nearby table that was being very loud and boistrous because he thought that would be risky.
I responded that I'm not dining out anywhere yet, since I can't eat with a mask on and our county is still red. Trying to make the point without being too much of a scold. (He has recently diagnosed heart problems, for one thing, so he is definitely at risk.)
His response: his risk was virtually nil because he was sitting there at a table for one (for an extended period of time), in a relatively isolated spot.
So I linked to an infectious disease poster identifying eating in a restaurant as being in the highest risk category of activities, and pointed out that the HVAC could either have carried the laughing group's disease to him for more than 20' - or, if it was stagnant, that he could have been sitting in the undispersed aerosolized matter from the prior diner. I encouraged him to hold on for another month, since he will have his first dose of the vaccine on Thursday.
4 out of 5 members of the family of a student of mine (who had been scheduled for brain surgery in about 2 weeks) have now been diagnosed with COVID. Her surgery is now delayed for about 8 weeks (assuming she survives COVID - she has severe asthma). They don't know where it came from because the 1st diagnosed didn't even go to school . . . but a sibling does . . . and they have traveled during the pandemic (making a road trip out of seeking a second medical opinion, stopping off in Vegas). Not to mention that this is the second round of COVID in the family (the 5th had it earlier . . . that one was blamed on the ex-spouse's lack of care).
I don't get it. COVID can occasionally sneak through boundaries, despite extreme caution. But every person I know of who has gotten it despite insisting they were taking precautions, admitted that they (or a family member) were eating in restaurants or visiting friends indoors, or going down to the mailbox in a communal building unmasked, or . . .
