“[A] friend said they’d be nervous if they were old and feeble, but since they’re not, they weren’t nervous. Not only did people agree, they thought it was funny. I laugh at sick things all the time, but this line of thinking has actual consequences”
Photo: Richard Drury/Getty Images I live in rural California in a county where one of the worst things you can do is worry or care about anything. People here live for climbing things they could easily fall out of or down from, getting lost on long, unplanned hikes without water, and tubing on Class II rapids without helmets. While I don’t believe I worry or care too excessively, expressing any amount here is suspect and unfashionable.
That felt sort of impossible. I mean, if we had the party and the virus did not spread in my community, I would feel happy, lucky, relieved. But if it did, I would not be able to say I had done everything in my power to stop it. This decision wasn’t about being 100 percent stoked, to me. It was about considering the risks and then deciding if those risks were worth taking.
I am scared. I have been reading about Italy, and how overwhelmed their hospitals are, and how doctors and nurses are choosing which people to save. I am not freaking out, but I am staying home as much as I can, avoiding gatherings and crowds, as recommended by many, many people who know more about what’s going on than I do. I think staying at home as much as you can is a good idea — not because I made this idea up in my head but because it’s supported by what is actually going on in reality.
I am the only person I know who wasn’t planning on going. “I doubt there’ll be anyone there who has coronavirus,” one would-be attendee said to me. I’m not quite sure what he was basing this on. Why wouldn’t there be someone there who has coronavirus? We know that there were 50-plus presumptive cases from just one event with only 175 people attending.
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