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by kadoban 518 days ago
You're correct, but just for fun's sake:

The amperage of static elecricity discharges like this can be quite high, tens of amps is common.

So walking across a carpet and getting a shock can easily be tens of amps at thousands of volts, and we're just totally fine (because it's for a tiny fraction of a second).