• Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
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      7 months ago

      Living is a whole lot of work. And I don’t have the time, nor the inclination to get sick. AFAIK, not immunocompromised.
      If I may ask, do you set aside time each quarter/each year to be sick? I don’t. I have responsibilities to myself and to others. I have zero desire to get sick. It’s never been an enjoyable experience, for me. And I have even less interest in getting others sick.

      I had a client come into the office last Wednesday. Everyone was masked, vaccinated, and the office has a multi-stage HEPA in every room. That client called in on Friday to report that they were covid (+). No one else in the office has tested (+). If we had no rational infectious disease prevention policy, It’s quite likely that I would have gotten sick. Are you aware of the recent research associating viral upper respiratory diseases with long term consequences?

      With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic came a review of our understanding of the nature of airborne disease transmission. Research was done in/ around 1937 during the Typhus epidemic, which was mis-interpreted for 78 years. Now it’s possible to understand, and behave in a way that markedly reduces airborne disease transmission. One can avail oneself of the current scientific understandings, and significantly reduce the chance of contracting and suffering from airborne disease. Or one can ignore the science. Collectively in the early stages of the pandemic, utilizing Handwashing, Masking, Distancing, and Isolation when sick, humanity was able to make two strains of influenza go extinct. As in gone, forever, from simple behavioral change. Knowing this, can you change? Or will you stick with outdated unscientific understandings, that cause you and others harm? I had to ask myself these questions, and you know what I chose.