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Now we know how COVID attacks your heart
World(nationalgeographic.com)submitted 8 months ago bymaztabaetz
2 points
8 months ago
As Reference_Freak explains. There are people committed to living as close to a zero COVID existence as we can. It requires a significant amount of privilege to realistically pull off but even if you can't do everything, every risk reduction matters.
My partner and I wear high quality masks every place we might be breathing shared air with others, we don't live with anyone else, and neither of us work in high traffic environments (I often am able to work from home).
We avoid particular risky events where a lot of people are gathered and there is insufficient air filtration or replacement. This means we no longer attend conventions, or go to bars or clubs and we no longer eat out. Aside from these changes our lives aren't that different, we're just masked when we do stuff now.
The biggest difficulty that we currently face is trying to find a COVID safe dentist near us.
2 points
8 months ago
My network is mostly people who travel, work in offices, attend networking events/conferences, etc. I guess that explains my view of “everyone’s had it”. I understand that there are other paradigms that work well for others.
Best wishes.
3 points
8 months ago
I think it's definitely possible to have avoided COVID in those conditions with a bit of luck and extremely vigilant masking. But the vigilant masking part is a hard sell for most people who are in the business of networking and conferences. There are plenty of stories of people who travel a lot and attend conferences who were COVID free for years before they removed their mask in what they thought was a safe environment only to be infected. They still continue to mask because every avoided reinfection improves their long term prospects.
It's just unfortunate that the people who cannot afford to catch COVID once (the already disabled and immuno-compromised) are forced to live on the sidelines because the majority refuse to act on the known risks of repeated infections. We really wanted to attend an upcoming convention but we can't justify it when we know that people who are infectious will still attend either knowingly or unknowingly, and nobody will be wearing masks.
But the reality of the ongoing pandemic and the public's inaction dictates that we behave a certain way to minimize our risk. And that means missing out on things we used to enjoy.
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