I refer to these excessively risk averse people as "branch covidians". It's dumb, corny, and not that funny, but it helps me appropriately pity them instead of

I refer to these excessively risk averse people as "branch covidians". It's dumb, corny, and not that funny, but it helps me appropriately pity them instead of being angry at them. Isolation can foster a negative feedback loop of excessive media consumption, and the media is filled with quantitatively illiterate mid-wits who grossly exaggerated the risk for healthy, non elderly people. Fear is the mind killer indeed.