Just received a jury summons for June. I live in a large city in Texas.
The way it works in my county is they bring in ~700-800 people into a large room where you are seated shoulder to shoulder with the spaces between each row of chairs similar to what you would see on an airplane. There is usually not enough seats so some have to stand along the wall. We sit/stand there for for ~2-3 hours as they divvy us up into juror pools for the various courts.
Once you are selected for a court, you go to another room, typically with 40-90 other jurors (the number varies depending upon the type of case before the court), and sit there for another 1-2 hours, shoulder-to-shoulder, while they question each juror, trying to get down to 12 jurors + alternates.
Then you leave for lunch, but you are not allowed to leave the building since they only give you 30-45 minutes. This only provides enough time to go to the cafeteria with the other 1000+ people in the building. I'll be skipping lunch.
When you return to the court room after lunch, the questioning may begin again for another 1-2 hours, if needed, until they pick the jury.
Sounds safe right?
There are ~2 postive cases (confirmed through testing) per 1000 people in my county. They say the actual number of cases is 5-10X the postive tested cases. Lets call it ~10 people per 1000 have Covid-19. Of that 50-60% are asymptomatic --> 5-6 people.
So statistically, within the packed jury room of 700-800 people there will be roughly, 3-4 asymptomatic Covid-19 cases. Somehow I feel like this is some kind of test to see how fast CV can spread.
I'll be going going, but I'll feel lke a rat in a lab test.
Anyone got an N-95 mask?
The way it works in my county is they bring in ~700-800 people into a large room where you are seated shoulder to shoulder with the spaces between each row of chairs similar to what you would see on an airplane. There is usually not enough seats so some have to stand along the wall. We sit/stand there for for ~2-3 hours as they divvy us up into juror pools for the various courts.
Once you are selected for a court, you go to another room, typically with 40-90 other jurors (the number varies depending upon the type of case before the court), and sit there for another 1-2 hours, shoulder-to-shoulder, while they question each juror, trying to get down to 12 jurors + alternates.
Then you leave for lunch, but you are not allowed to leave the building since they only give you 30-45 minutes. This only provides enough time to go to the cafeteria with the other 1000+ people in the building. I'll be skipping lunch.
When you return to the court room after lunch, the questioning may begin again for another 1-2 hours, if needed, until they pick the jury.
Sounds safe right?
There are ~2 postive cases (confirmed through testing) per 1000 people in my county. They say the actual number of cases is 5-10X the postive tested cases. Lets call it ~10 people per 1000 have Covid-19. Of that 50-60% are asymptomatic --> 5-6 people.
So statistically, within the packed jury room of 700-800 people there will be roughly, 3-4 asymptomatic Covid-19 cases. Somehow I feel like this is some kind of test to see how fast CV can spread.
I'll be going going, but I'll feel lke a rat in a lab test.
Anyone got an N-95 mask?
