I know this goes against all our instincts and socialization but when there's an infectious disease running around you have to be afraid of other people You have to treat other people like they're dangerous and dirty and disgusting to be around I'm sorry but that's how it works
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I remember in school when the teacher pointed out that whenever you can smell something that means tiny particles of it have floated through the air into your nose and mouth If you smell poop you've consumed a small amount of poop And all the kids were like "EWWW"
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But that's how it works The virus itself is odorless and that's a big problem, a way evolution has failed us But you have to treat it as though it were one of those toxic compounds that evolution did manage to create an olfactory warning system for
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Can you smell someone's BO even if you can't actually physically see droplets of sweat coming off their body into your nose and mouth? Does that smell, even if you can't see the droplets, make you want to get further away from them? Well pretend everyone has BO
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Just, like, use that as your heuristic Yeah it's harder to smell someone's BO outdoors than in an enclosed room but that doesn't mean it's impossible does Yeah you usually can't smell anything six feet away but sometimes you can, can't you
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Like if the wind blows the wrong way or you walk right through where they were just standing or the two of you are just hanging out indefinitely six feet apart for hours while the clouds of particles of bodily fluids around you slowly grow
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I'm really serious here Like people should be trying to limit their contact with other humans as much as possible It's not just standing six feet apart at the supermarket checkout it's spending as little time there *at all* as possible
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You should be being rude, the kind of behavior that, yes, would make someone ask "What do I stink or something"
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I have known too many people who absolutely believe there is no “spirit” to society and only the letter, and that bad-faith exploits are accepted and encouraged. These people play life like video games and it’s awful.
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