Taking COVID-19 risks because you’re “not scared” is like picking up a hitchhiker with a backpack full of live grenades and dropping him off in the center of town. Maybe you’ll be fine; it’s your car, whatever. But you know what he’s planning and you could choose NOT to help.

There are certain risks we just can’t avoid. But there’s no need to volunteer to be a spreader when you don’t have to.

You just really can’t think of a pandemic in terms of personal risk. Anyone who becomes a victim is also, without knowing it for several days, a disease multiplier and spreader. We do our best to stay safe for everyone, not just for ourselves.

This is how viruses work. If they killed everyone they infected, they wouldn’t spread. If they only made people contagious when obviously sick, they wouldn’t spread. Viruses exist to SPREAD. They don’t care about making you sick. They just want to get out there. Don’t help them.

If you’re young and healthy and feeling invulnerable, the virus absolutely loves you. It wants to be your friend and it wants you to take it with you all over town and introduce it to everyone you know. It wants to meet your parents and all your friends’ parents. You are its BFF.

I mean yeah probably you’ll be fine! And you’ll have a great night out with your friends and make some memories and in three or four weeks someone you’ve never met will die alone in a hospital bed and then a few days later the death stats will tick up one notch. Cheers.