Well if we’re listening to experts only; why the fuck would we listen to you on the subject? You aren’t an MD and your evidence is observed and anecdotal only.
It's like if the Dunning-Kreuger effect and confirmation bias had a baby....
Everything I've said (outside of my personal anecdote) is what other experts and doctors have said. The reason why I've had no problem doing stuff like (gasp!) meeting in person is because I had covid at the very start of the pandemic so I already had immunity for 99% of the pandemic. Why should I be worried about either getting or spreading it? That's not my opinion, that's expert opinions. There is no case and absolutely nothing pointing to covid immunity not lasting years. SARS from 2003 transfers immunity to covid (scientific fact) and it has 17+ years of immunity and counting (scientific fact). Why would covid act like the flu in that regard and not like it's extremely close relative? That makes no logical sense or scientific sense. Those reinfection stories run by the news were bullshit. Those stories about finding covid weeks later on a cruise ship were bullshit too because viruses don't "die" so your find the inactive virus in a place that it was weeks/months later, that means nothing as to whether you can get it from there.
"The chance of transmission through inanimate surfaces is very small," says Prof Emmanuel Goldman of Rutgers University. The chances of getting covid outside is
extremely low. And we knew that from other respiratory viruses as well. Also, kids (pre 1st grade) don't need masks at all because they don't even have the ACE2 receptors that covid utilizes, that's from Dr. Paul Offit who is the very top dog vaccine expert (are you not going to believe him?). He also said the chances of a variant escaping the vaccines is extremely low, it's not something to worry about basically.
These are not my opinions, they are the opinions of top experts and doctors in the field. The only interest I have ever had is to find out how bad the coronavirus so I know what to do for me and my family and friends. If you want as close to zero risk as humanly possible, then stay home and don't see anyone. If you wanna reduce covid risk to what are normal levels of acceptable risk (like driving a car), then you can do a lot more things and be safe. Staying home and not seeing anyone also does harm (as shown in Errant Signal's last video), there's no way to have both zero risk and zero harm, it's just not gonna happen.
I just listened to the following video on my way back home, Chicago, from Lafayette, Indiana. Guess what both the doctors said about needing a vaccine if you already had covid? A big fat NOPE with a bunch of laughter. The video is a great example of how majority scientific opinion vs public health messages greatly differ. Right now, the news is running stories of how younger people are getting hit with covid more, no shit Sherlock, all the old people got vaccinated, of course young people are going to be the ones getting it. Public health messages are all about getting to ZERO risk, which you can't do anyway, vs just telling you what the actual data is. Sure, you can get covid outside but you do plenty of other things in your normal life that are far more risky than whatever minute chance of getting covid is outside.
I don't care and know your bulling me on a lot of shit. Either you are very unlucky, or you've not been following safety and guidelines enough. You're no medical expert, so I am not taking your "advice". I got a mom that's been a registered nurse for 30+ years. High in her field and has never lead me nor my brother astray.
I'm not bullying anyone, just telling the facts and what is actually going on. The news narrative is a joke. Pretty much everything I said above and check out the video I posted, it's just doctors talking without any "journalist" transcribing their quotes to the narrative.
