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you know, maybe i should form a truce with the folks i know that are very covid-conscious, because practically speaking we aren't so different. i never stopped habitually masking and i'm pretty happy to say i have not had a noticeable covid infection the entire pandemic afaict

‪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

‪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.