Until it happens to you

It’s a sunny day, so we get out of the house and drive to our favourite shopping area to get a to-go coffee — sidewalks packed with people, only one in 10 wearing a mask, and no concern for social distancing that we could see.

So we gave it up and drove home.

I don’t think that’s what Dr. Bonnie Henry meant when she suggested that people get out and about.

As my grandfather used to say: “You don’t think it will happen to you until it happens to you.”

Ray Arnold, Richmond