COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

sammymvpknight said

I'm pretty sure that the idiots are accounted for. A good plan would not be based on a best case scenario. A good plan would be to assume that 25-33% of the population are complete idiots and will do the exact opposite of what is asked of them. For instance...the beaches opened here in Florida...we're still doing fine. Restaurants are starting to open...we are still doing fine. Fewer people are wearing their masks...we are still doing just fine. The reason is because there is enough people who are going to continue to do the right thing, and each phase of re-opening is very deliberate (most place in the country) and the strategy won't allow the idiots to win.

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I hope you are right that the idiots are accounted for and that it will continue that way. But I fear that within a week or two many more than 25 to 33% will be ignoring all the sensible rules. And I'm not sure that in most places that is being taken into account at all. I mean, anecdotally, where I buy groceries only maybe 70% were wearing masks at the height of this and maybe only 25% actually cared about staying 6 feet apart. Some places seem to just be throwing all the doors open immediately. Florida, despite the initial reluctance appears to be actually doing this sensibly at this point. Not sure that will be true elsewhere.

I mean if the stuff posted all over the internet is wide spread, and maybe it isn't, people are already just acting like it's normal. Even the airlines appear to be packing planes full with the only protection being masks.