Saturday, May 23, 2020

Russian Poker, American Roulette

Would you object if I held a revolver to your head with only one bullet in the cylinder, gave it a spin and pulled the trigger?

After all it's my 2nd amendment right to bear arms, and there is only a 1 in 6 chance that you will die, and with the required six foot separation for social distancing, I could easily miss, so even if the gun did go off there's a good chance you might live (results vary based on make and model).

If you are infected with covid-19 and you are not wearing a mask, those may be fairly similar odds as a person you are talking to has of living.

What non-mask-wearers are playing is a twisted version of Russian Roulette (sometimes called Russian Poker) in which they are taking reckless chances not with their own lives, but with other people's lives; that's American Roulette.

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