How Do You Like Your Numbers, Sir? (IV)

Of course, you’re really only in danger from your one-out-of-230-people if that person is someone who you get close up to for a while—if they breathe in your face.

Hence the reason why people have been avoiding public transport, bars, restaurants, etc. since this business began.  Oh, certainly, there have been government orders; and yes, some people are irrationally afraid of getting sick, or getting someone else sick.

But personally, it seems to me quite rational (at least living where I do now) to say (while I won’t stop going places where I need to go) that I’m not going to, er, lean in to shake any hands or give any hugs (not that I hug much to begin with).