5/14/20 Two Similar Starts, Different Endings?

    I hate continually talking about corona, it is a freaking buzzkill, but it hovers over us like a stormcloud that won't go away.  In light of the current spread back home, a small reality occurred to me.  The way the individuals infected have behaved has had very different outcomes to the loved ones around them.  I hate to label (not really), but the first example is the responsible way following the protocols we have been told, while the second way is exactly how you would expect selfish people to carry on.  I don't know any of the people involved, they are just two examples in the tiny micro dish that is Crystal City.
    About a month ago, the son of Wife's coworker was diagnosed and tested for the corona virus.  He tested positive, they closed the office where Wife works, luckily Wife was already self isolating and had not had contact with her coworkers and as far as I heard, the young man self isolated and even his wife did not become infected.  He got sick enough that he knew something was wrong, and went and got tested, but it never got bad enough that he needed to go to the hospital and spend the night.  a few weeks, maybe a month passed and as far as my mom knew (gossip travels fast in a small town), nobody else had the virus and all seemed well.
    Last week, we were all set to go and visit my folks when suddenly my mom called Friday morning that we might want to reconsider and maybe my sister was infected.  It turns out the plumber for the school district had his sister in law visit while knowingly sick and as a result infected like five members by that Friday.  After finding this out and realizing everyone still working at the school administration building had come into contact with this man (he had been diagnosed so he knew, still, no mask), they closed the building for a couple of weeks and everyone has now had to check themselves.  My sister saw the man just as he was coming out of the building and she remembers holding the door open for him, but she was not wearing a mask either.  My sister got tested last Friday and still didn't know as of yesterday (Wednesday) when I called.  The plumber's family is up to about 10 members who have contracted the virus, thankfully (for them), it hasn't made them sick, only the wife of the plumber or her mother.  The plumber meanwhile was seen this past weekend at the local chicken place buying chicken and carrying on still without so much as a mask on.  If this isn't selfish asshole behavior, what is?
    In the first case, the dude was scared and took it seriously and nobody got sick after him, not even his wife who lives with him.  In the second case, the shitty sister in law should never have come for a visit, but then the family should have quarantined the infected.  Instead, now most of the family got it and one of them is in the hospital.  I guess that's how they learn.