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‪but at this point it's very hard to believe that's actually because of my safety practices and not because i got a very good roll on the immune system base stat‬

‪i guess my masking habits make it less likely i'll asymptomatically infect people around me? that's good i guess?‬

‪on the other hand, and yes i know this will probably cause some of you to explode but do remember i have lived in sweden almost all of this time: i have probably only taken maybe two covid tests in my entire life. it is very questionable to me if they are actually useful‬

‪it would be interesting to take a rapid antigen test every day for a year to prove a point but i am not that masochistic‬

‪i don't know why i said “truce”, i was never “at war”. i think i just need to unfollow one or two people‬

‪i guess if i don't say what i think people will make inferences i don't like, so: in my opinion we'd all be in a better world if public health authorities went very hard on masking and ventilation and soft on everything else. they staked their credibility on the wrong things‬

‪read “ventilation and filtration” for ventilation there. also by “went” i mean “had gone”. feels like they used up all their goodwill and aren't getting it back‬

@hikari Hindsight is 2020—I agree that that may have been more successful, but the medical community was still stuck in decades-old misconceptions around aerosols until at least 2022, and there was a shortage of capacity for production of effective masks through most of 2020. Hopefully these won’t be as much of a problem for the next pandemic.

@hikari I wasn't aware there was any friction or dissent in order to require a truce tbh?

And yeah, no matter how intense your safety precautions, with how long things are going it still comes down to rolls of the dice and you can't really exist in society without some small risk of it

Like I go everywhere masked and can count on one hand the times I went without a mask for something in the last 4 and a bit years (and even then, was masked on the way there), I still take tests before and after any major social event in person (rare as they are) and during the first ~2 years or so did them far more regularly as I was living with a NHS worker

I was also on the vulnerable list and got my jab ahead of even my grandparents as a result

And despite all that, I still got it* within the first 6 months of me moving out into my own place, despite basically be a hermit and rarely leaving the house (and pretty much always for neccessities, not for social)

(* and bad enough it left me largely in bed, barely able to leave let alone go downstairs to eat, I had to get friends and family to visit, masked and santised, avoiding my room, dropping off food just outside then leaving and dropping me a message so I'd know if it was okay to open my door or not when I was conscious. After a few days I was able to downstairs and start microwaving stuff but it was still very rough for a few weeks. Very glad I've avoided any obvious long-term side-effects)