This is one of the reasons I don’t understand most liberals. Most people in general are terrible at risk analysis, so this isn’t unique to libs, but they seem particularly bad at it.

If you’re healthy, young-ish, you have no symptoms, and no one you know is sick or has been sick, the risk of contracting/spreading Covid-19 is small, and the risk of the worst of the sickness is also small.

Thus, hanging out with someone one-on-one is a prety fucking low-risk. Especially balanced against the risk of psychological harm and trauma from isolation. Also, we know that most people contract the virus in close-quarters superspreader events indoors in poorly-ventilated areas.

So, as usual, liberals with their deontological orientation worry about the wrong things.

If you meet a friend in a well-ventilated area, where both of you have no symptoms, and haven’t been around anyone who has been sick, and outdoors, not around lots of other people, your chances of contracting anything are vanishingly small. Probably around a 0.001% chance or so. Maybe less. And far less if you both wear masks (I think this is unnecessary outdoors).

But no! Libs have to show their moral rectitude at all times, like some 16th-Century Puritan.