Subj : Re: Shit has hit the fan!
To   : jack phlash
From : tenser
Date : Tue Mar 31 2020 07:19:08

On 29 Mar 2020 at 09:04p, jack phlash pondered and said...
 
 jp> That was the exact issue we were having in my city. One group of friends
 jp> or a family goes to a park, who cares? Agreed. A few people? No problem.
 jp> Next thing you know the park is full of people and even if they're
 jp> attempting to maintain appropriate distances, they're going to be using
 jp> the same bathrooms, touching the same door knobs, gates, handrails,
 jp> whatever. Even the hiking trails in my area got flooded with people
 jp> because they all thought they'd be the only ones to come up with the
 jp> idea to go out to a normally semi-secluded scenic overlook or waterfall
 jp> or whatever. The governor finally decided to put an actual order in last
 jp> week because people simply weren't using good judgment.

Good points; there's certainly a tragedy of the commons
kind of thing going on here.  If, however, people _can_
maintain social distance....  I guess they demonstrably
cannot.

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