On the off chance you are in a Theater Shooting

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2. It is a disgusting topic, granted

I am well aware, in writing this, of the implication to some that it is not right to have to mitigate risk, and thus that it is indecent or absurd to think about.

And I appreciate that some will read such advice as "blaming the victim" as if it were somehow the fault of people in the aisles... which it surely was not.

I get that.

It's the same way we find Civil Defense advice from the 1960s absurd, even though it was excellent advice on the off chance one was on the edge of the zone of total lethality from a nuclear blast. We shopuldn't have to think in terms of nuclear blasts and mall shootings.

But since the world is as it is, these things are real.

This theater was 12 miles from Columbine High School. It appears that in this neighborhood mass shooting are a significant part of real life.

And if I were a parent there I would give this advice to my kids... as disgusting as it is that one would ever feel obliged to tell children what to do in a mass shooting.

But we tell kids what to do vis-a-vis being kidnapped by murderous pedophiles. Are mass shooting really so much less a concern?

So yes, one probably would want to stifle such coughing to the degree she was able. As twisted as that is, to live in a world where that would be a consideration.