re: People who are still covidians.

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You sound smart, I mean idiotic smart. Or maybe you just sound like an idiot.

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Man, you really narrowed it down here.

I know somebody that got sick from going to a party on July 4th. Older dude, upper 50's, works a lot outdoors.

Started as a mild cold, after a couple days was really shitty, like a bad case of the flu. He heard someone at the party tested positive (I don't know why the initial person bothered to test), so he did, and HE was positive.

And, it kicked his arse for about 2 weeks. Now, I will say, he didn't take any special medicines (even cold & flu stuff), just took Ibuprofen. I seem to remember that being a no-no with covid, and sure enough he got worse, to the point that he was getting vertigo laying down and was hoarse. I dropped off some meclizine and extra-strength cold and flu stuff, mostly decongestant and expectorant (I hear the vertigo comes from heavy congestion that fricks with the inner ear canals). In a couple days of that, he was back on his feet, and fine within a week.

I wasn't scared to swing by his house to deliver groceries and medicine while he was sick.

The big thing to remember, it CAN be a pretty bad cold, on par with a bad case of the flu. Ain't no reason not to treat it (with OTC meds). But it's not going to cause the zombie apocalypse.

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I see people wearing masks, even sometimes alone in their car.

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One benefit- I admit I noticed a difference cutting the grass

I've always had bad allergy flareups, blowing snot everywhere certain times of the year. I had a couple old masks in the car (came out of my scrub pockets from work), decided to wear one cutting the yard. It will catch most of the junk that you'd get from "normal" times, and during this heat wave/drought will screen out a lot of the dust.

I would just use the normal surgical masks (or a bandanna); I figure an N95 in this heat might filter better, but you'd likely die in the heat.

I wish they’d all stay home. We need to thin the crowds.

Me