05-26-2020, 06:52 PM
(05-26-2020, 07:38 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN is reporting on the lax attitude of many Americans, that even while cases are going up in some states the attitude is getting easier. One comment...
Quote:"My family has the same mindset as me and we kind of just agreed that if we get it, we get it. We're going to handle it as a family and get over it," one beachgoer told CNN's Gary Tuchman.
This sort of reflects what I am hearing on the local Facebook group. Many are not taking this seriously, thus the R value is higher than it could be.
I don't agree completely. These folks that have made the decision to socialize are being serious, but reaching conclusions that logic doesn't support. Most people need to be with other people, and that alone will draw them out to mingle ... hopefully in some rational way. Then again, I live in an area that doesn't take this all that seriously for tribal and political reasons, so don't count on 'rational'.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.