Kudos to Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry for hosting a Q&A on his Instagram account with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US's leading expert on infectious diseases, who is a bit of a superstar himself these days.
It is essential that the message gets drilled into younger people because, from what I have seen anecdotally, it is mainly young people who are not taking the whole pandemic thing seriously enough.
Whether it is because they think themselves to be bullet-proof, whether it is because the disease tends to affect older people more than the young, or whether it is just because they are excessively concerned with looking cool, I don't really know. But any groups I have seen of people hanging around, ostentatiously flouting the social distancing rules, have been high school jock types or early twenties hipster types, almost always male. Oh, and construction workers any age. These people, of course, then go back to their families, and spread their newly-acquired (and oh-so-cool) germs around.
So, anything that teen icons like Mr. Curry and their ilk can do to set these people straight is entirely welcome.
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