Why are people so dumb?

[babylonsister]

I can't even. I'm scared to go out.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/26/quarantine-quitters-americans-outside-social-distancing-fed-up/?fbclid=IwAR1Dh2-0pd3Yw9l2Nvrztd6DsjkMJErFXV-gObNWnz5Ngj7683f6XnOPXik

America's Quarantine Quitters Most Seem Fed Up, Ready for Summer ... A Cross-Country Feeling
4/26/2020 1:34 PM PT


We'd like to introduce you to the Quarantine Quitters of America (the QQA for short) as a reminder folks are at their wit's end and throwing in the towel all over the country.

Click through the gallery and you'll see what we mean -- folks from coast to coast have been heading outdoors en masse over the past few weeks, hitting the beach, hitting the trails, hitting the streets, hitting anything they can to get a feeling of normalcy back.

Of course, in almost all of these cases ... so many are not practicing proper social distancing.

Whether it's beach-goers in Venice or Huntington Beach, or the good people of New York flocking out to Coney Island, or even the many protesters in Austin, TX and beyond -- people are clearly ready to break quarantine ... it looks like they've had enough, 'rona be damned.

That's a problem, obviously, because this many people going out and standing so near each other can and might very likely cause another wave of COVID-19 cases, not to mention the deaths that'll follow. These folks don't seem to care though ... apathy wins the day.

Shaking our collective heads ...

[Corgigal]

1. Self absorbed

It won’t happen to me. Sex drive supersedes frontal cortex. Don’t like old people, cause I will never be old.

Shallow people, and we wonder why the planet is trying to take us out.

[BigmanPigman]

2. That pretty much sums it up in a nutshell.

[SoonerPride]

3. They have been told it is over until the fall

And they can’t really fear an invisible killer

So yeah.


Dumb.

[babylonsister]

7. Who told them that?

Are they all faux viewers?

None of them watch the news?

I'm appalled.

[SoonerPride]

9. Even MSNBC and CNN keep saying we're on the downhill part of the curve

And expect a second wave in the fall

Their reporting so exclusively on NY gives the impression there is no increase elsewhere and that we are plateaued.

And Fox News doesn’t report on it at all

[babylonsister]

10. I'm warned by msnbc all the time.

cnn is doing the same thing. I don't know about fox.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. CNN Is?

I'm watching them a lot, and I'm hearing no promotion of the idea that we're out of the woods.
In fact, they have interview guests on, all day, every day, who are expressing serious reservations about reopenings in the regressive states.

[babylonsister]

15. Yes, they're warning us not to get

complacent. I only usually watch Don Lemon, but he sounds the alarm regularly.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. I'm Watching More During The Day

Brooke Baldwin got CV19. She is a light year from cheer leading the move to reopen.
Her, Cooper, the woman that follows Brooke (braincramping on her name). 5 or 6 hours, midday, of folks taking this seriously.
I think they've been really responsible.

[Skittles]

4. I have never understood the appeal of being on a crowded beach

ugh

[babylonsister]

8. I'm a beach person but

I've been fortunate enough to not have to go to beaches that were so crowded.

I worked the concession stand at Jones Beach for awhile in the late 70s. I suppose it was pretty crowded, but it's a distant memory.

[RobinA]

17. Me Neither

I wouldn't go on this beach if they were testing every single person who entered it. And I'm a beach person. Just not this sort of beach. Ever.

[Skittles]

18. it really seems kind of gross

[BootinUp]

6. we live in interesting times. nt

[abqtommy]

11. Could modern humans be an evolutionary dead end? A lot of us are stupid, easily manipulated

and tolerate a wide range of abuse from our "leaders". We kill each other and seldom co-operate
for the better good of our total population. In spite of many philosophical and religious teachings
that encourage kindness and fairness it just isn't happening. I'm beginning to think that we're
"a great big cosmic joke"* that isn't funny at all.

* link to a David Carradine performance of the song Cosmic Joke in 1975 that I saw performed on The Johnny Carson show...

[Igel]

12. I'm going to make two assumptions.

1. That the crowding I perceive in the distance is caused by distance, and that the density is consistent.

2. That the groups of people are either family units that quarantine or they're "quaranteam" units.

Now I look in the foreground and think about how far it is between groups. Most of them are 6' or more.

Then I think what they're told: That social distancing requires at least 6' between people.

Now, insane reports have police and others insisting that family members that quarantine in a given house or apartment and are often close somehow must be 6' apart in public. It's insane and likely based on ignorance, but since they assume nobody's related to anybody else I can see how their ersatz logic makes sense in stupid world. But surely we're smarter than that.

It's probably the same reasoning for a lot of why Florida didn't explode as a result of spring break. Groups went to FL, groups hung together in FL, groups returned together from FL. But most groups that were groups before and after break stayed groups at break.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Meh. If they all get Covid-19 and die I don't give a flying fuck.

I only hope that a lot of medical resources are not squandered trying to keep them alive.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. Our brains aren't very good at driving a sustained change in behavior, even when we know better.

It's why habits are hard to break and set. Once they're habits, we're usually good; it's getting there that's hard.