. But there was some thinking that the singing itself might have been contributing. Meaning that if you sing you're exhaling more aggressively and you're all standing together exhaling aggressively because you're singing. So that might have been the very worst situation you could possibly imagine. Where a bunch of people with no face masks are exhaling air in the same space for a couple hours. I mean it probably couldn't have been worse. And sure enough the results showed it.

All right. Yeah there's a navy carrier with a bunch of infected people on it so we'll probably learn something from that as bad as that is. I just saw an article that DMDS can leave you with stronger resistance. I don't know what a DMDS is.

How are you certain that the virus is not on the surface of cans of food restocked? Why? Some of it is. I assume it is. So everything has to be seen as statistics and following the odds. The odds of getting the virus if you're in a chorus that meets in one room and all sings really loudly and exhales seems to be very high. So don't do that. The odds of getting it from intense personal interaction with somebody who has it, very high. So don't do that.

But the odds of getting it because you took a walk in the park? It's possible, right? I guess because they say it can float around in the air and who knows. You stop and pet a dog and it's on the dog. So could you get it from a walk in the park by yourself? The answer is I guess you know maybe. But the odds of getting it that way are so low that that would not be really contributing much to the viral spread. In other words if the only way anybody ever got it was taking a walk in the park it would not reproduce fast enough to be viral. So that's not the kind of risk that I would avoid because taking walks is good for you too.

Likewise your question was how can you be sure it's not on the cans of food or the food itself. And the answer is it probably is somewhere in some grocery store. I'm sure it's on something. I mean the odds of that seem like a hundred percent somewhere in the whole supply chain. But what are the odds that you're gonna get it that way? So let's say you know your bag of groceries is delivered to you and you open it up and you take things out, you put them away, but you make sure you don't touch your face. Maybe you're wearing a mask when you do it and you immediately thoroughly wash your hands after you've touched everything. Do you then need to go back and swab everything down? You know like all your cans and wash with soap your vegetables and stuff like that? Well it would probably help but I'm not going to do it because the way I'm gonna play the odds is you know if something has a 90 percent chance of giving it to me like attending a choir practice I'm not going to do that. If something has a maybe a 1 percent chance of giving it to me I'll probably still do that. And if everybody acted that way and they avoided the 90 percent chance of getting it but they did do the things that would give you a 1 percent chance of doing it, we'd still be okay because it would bring the rate of reproduction down below one person making you more than one person sick.

So you can't reduce your risk to zero from your groceries. You can do the obvious stuff. Wash your hands, throw away the bag, throw away the bags, wash your hands. But I don't know that the risk is so big that I would worry about that too much.

Now here I am not giving you my personal medical opinion. I am imitating a doctor who's working on the front lines who said in his experience he's now dealt with I don't know how many hundreds of patients that they all know where they got it basically. Not all of them, not a hundred percent, but mostly they know where they got it. And they got it from a person and they got it from a person that they interacted with. What he's not seeing is people coming in and saying I have no idea where I got it because I've been socially isolating and just taking walks. So h