Eight people were hospitalized after contracting bullets in Brooklyn last night. (No word on whether they were wearing masks.)

Now let's compare that to the risks associated with contracting Covid in a restaurant.

According to the governor's data, restaurants account for 1.43% (0.0143) of all new Covid infections.

Let's assume catching Covid in a restaurant is no more, or less, likely to result in hospitalization, meaning 1.43% of all Covid-related hospitalizations are due to restaurants.

According to data from the New York City Health Department, 1,316 people ended up in the hospital within 14 days of a Covid diagnosis last week in New York City. That's an average of 188 (1,316 divided by 7) per day.

Using these numbers, we can infer that roughly 2.69 of these daily hospitalizations were from Covid contracted in a restaurant (1.43% of 188).

That means that about 3 times as many people (8 divided by 2.69) ended up in the hospital because they were shot in Brooklyn Saturday night than will end up in the hospital because they ate out that same night.

It's math, people!

Of course, you can quibble with these numbers A LOT. But let's look at it another way.

Taking all of New York City, over 4 people per day on average are being shot, more than twice the number last year, making it still more likely you can end up in the hospital by being shot in New York City than eating inside in a restaurant, and that's using the elevated numbers of Covid hospitalizations of the last week.

But by all means, we must shut down all the restaurants or you are a reckless maniac.

That, or shut down Brooklyn, but I don't want to give them any ideas.