If it didn't happen to me, it can't be true
Because it didn’t happen to me…. It’s not true. The only conclusion I can come to about people in Ireland (and elsewhere) who are still having house parties, refusing to wear masks, heading to the airport for a weekend in the sun – is that they’ll never believe it till they’re in intensive care with Covid themselves. And as we know, if they’re under 40, that’s a very small chance. But I somehow don’t think the great unmasked are doing risk analysis or cost-benefit modelling about their behaviour. The Washington Post ran a (long but interesting) opinion piece last week headlined “The March of the American Kook”. The author, David Roth, eventually, got down to describing the actions of a group of people who organised an anti-Covid protest that caused Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, being used for a vaccination centre, to shut down for an afternoon. According to Roth ( defector.com ), the social media post spreading the call to arms for this protest said: “...