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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
āŖbut 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 statā¬
āŖi guess my masking habits make it less likely i'll asymptomatically infect people around me? that's good i guess?ā¬
āŖon 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 usefulā¬
āŖit would be interesting to take a rapid antigen test every day for a year to prove a point but i am not that masochisticā¬
āŖi don't know why i said ātruceā, i was never āat warā. i think i just need to unfollow one or two peopleā¬
āŖi 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 thingsā¬
āŖread āventilation and filtrationā for ventilation there. also by āwentā i mean āhad goneā. feels like they used up all their goodwill and aren't getting it backā¬
@hikari Hindsight is 2020āI 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 wonāt be as much of a problem for the next pandemic.