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When I shop for produce now I go right when the store opens.
That way fewer customers have coughed on, sneezed on, and touched the exposed produce.
Protection from CV-19 is not black and white.
It's about degrees.
It's about odds.
My age and medical conditions and facts about this virus really motivates me to lower my odds of exposure.
I realize some people think, getting take out is the same as shopping in a food store, which is the same as grocery delivery, which is the same as drive up, because all processes involve some number of strangers touching your food.
In their mind it's all equal risk.
But it's not.
More human contact = more risk.
And it's not just about face to face contact (Oh, but they leave it at my front door, or they have a drive up, so it's safe). Afraid not. There's still more (and unnecessary) humans in contact with what you're about to eat.
Of course zero risk is not possible, but lower risk is.
I think lots of people think, why bother? since since zero risk is not possible.
Poor thinking, IMO.
Then again apparently really do think saving someone else's business/job is more important than saving the lives of their family.
People surely do vary.
I'm gonna rack my brain and choose the process, no matter how inconvenient, so as few people as possible have contact with the food I eat.
Again, people are contagious days before they know they are and all that time they are out and about working and spreading the virus.
I don't see my perspective as fear.
I see it as reasonable and smart.
That way fewer customers have coughed on, sneezed on, and touched the exposed produce.
Protection from CV-19 is not black and white.
It's about degrees.
It's about odds.
My age and medical conditions and facts about this virus really motivates me to lower my odds of exposure.
I realize some people think, getting take out is the same as shopping in a food store, which is the same as grocery delivery, which is the same as drive up, because all processes involve some number of strangers touching your food.
In their mind it's all equal risk.
But it's not.
More human contact = more risk.
And it's not just about face to face contact (Oh, but they leave it at my front door, or they have a drive up, so it's safe). Afraid not. There's still more (and unnecessary) humans in contact with what you're about to eat.
Of course zero risk is not possible, but lower risk is.
I think lots of people think, why bother? since since zero risk is not possible.
Poor thinking, IMO.
Then again apparently really do think saving someone else's business/job is more important than saving the lives of their family.
People surely do vary.
I'm gonna rack my brain and choose the process, no matter how inconvenient, so as few people as possible have contact with the food I eat.
Again, people are contagious days before they know they are and all that time they are out and about working and spreading the virus.
I don't see my perspective as fear.
I see it as reasonable and smart.
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