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The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000.
Yet I bet the same people who refuse to wear a mask get out of the pool during a lightening storm.
Throck
(2,520 posts)lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)wearing a mask doesn't protect YOU, only other people.
Getting out of the pool protects you.
These people that don't wear a mask just don't care about other people.
Silent3
(15,265 posts)Then it would become a conservative/Trumpian badge of honor to stay in swimming pools when the lighting starts, and to jump into a pool if they weren't already in one.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)That they look both ways before crossing the street.
unc70
(6,119 posts)It happens in real life, not just in the movie Caddy Shack.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)we all try to get struck by lightning as a cure for COVID-19.
Whew!
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Getting bad weather