I've noticed this here in the east too, especially in urban hotspots of liberalism
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stupid is as stupid does
The smart set at Stanford wears masks, but not helmets when bicycling outdoors.
Of course, wearing a COVID mask outdoors is pointless and stupid regardless of what’s on top of the rider’s empty skull, but liberals run on their feelings, not facts. For instance, ask one of them whether she’d let her child play at a house where a parent kept a gun, and when she raises her hands in horror, ask whether she’d have the same reaction if there were a swimming pool there, instead of a gun. 100X more children drown in private pools each year than are killed by guns, but what’s that got to do with it? Guns are S-C-A-R-Y!
Cyclists on the Stanford University campus are more than twice as likely to wear a face mask while riding their stupid bicycles outside than they are a helmet that might actually save their lives, according to a recently published analysis.
Maxwell Meyer, editor in chief of the Stanford Review, observed 400 cyclists on Stanford's campus, where nearly everyone has received a COVID-19 vaccine. In the interest of providing context, Stanford is an elite university for "smart" people. Most of the students—especially the ones on bicycles—are raging libs.
According to said science, wearing a face mask outside is essentially pointless in terms of protecting yourself from COVID-19. But it is, rather ironically, a great way for libs to symbolically express their belief in science to their fellow libs. Such is the world we are living in.
"Seemingly intelligent and well-rounded people (Stanford students, for example) have adopted bizarre, pointless habits to comport with new expectations about how to ‘stay safe'—like wearing masks outdoors—all while continuing in much more risky behaviors," Meyer writes. "This is not to say that riding a bicycle without a helmet is *especially* risky, or that I believe helmets should be mandated (they shouldn't). But it's absolutely a bigger risk than COVID-19 for a vaccinated twenty-something."
Editor Meyer’s methodology is probably impeccable, but he’s too generous in describing these dolts as “seemingly intelligent and well-rounded people” — they seem that way only to their fellow “Love Has No Home Here” peers. The rest of us recognize them for what they are.
