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> But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options? It depends on work and family circumstances. But, stuff that works: * Be outd
by graeme 5y ago
> But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?
It depends on work and family circumstances. But, stuff that works:
* Be outdoors, and socialize outdoors
* If in indoor unventilated spaces, wear a mask. Ideally N95 if lots of people and they aren’t mask
* Exercise more caution during local waves
* If socializing with others indoors, open a window. This can be done even during heat waves or winter: the greater the temp differential the more the air circulation for a given amount of window opening. Doesn’t raise costs too much, yet people treat it as impossible
* Buy a hepa filter for your home. Humidifiers can also help in winter
* Avoid indoor restaurants and bars and unmasked venues
* In risky venues, choose glasses over contacts. Eye protection is another layer
* Don’t hang out with symptomatic or unvaccinated people
* Get vaccinated
Whether you should choose to do this is another thing, but that’s what to do if you don’t want to catch a respiratory virus.
This above is consistent with: seeing friends, small indoor gatherings, travel (wear n95 + glasses!), etc. It certainly isn’t living in a bunker.
It does present problems during winter though, and it is also quite inconvenient in places with frequent large waves. Small ventilated indoor gatherings with vaccinated friends should be ok in low prevalence, but are risky in a big wave, for example.
- blindmute 5y agoI would quite literally rather contract covid than live like that for any period of time.
- graeme 5y agoApart from the masks, it’s how much of Canada lives for four months of the year (summer). We hardly do any indoors socializing. It’s what I based the above on. Both pandemic summers Canada has had collapsing cases even while there were surged in parts of the world with winter or that use AC more than us. Go to any restaurant with a patio and you’ll hardly see anyone inside. Everyone goes to the patios in summertime. And people tend to open windows rather than use AC on anything but the hottest days. Backyard dinners or rooftop drinks are one of the main ways people socialize privately.
- sharken 5y agoDifference being that Covid restrictions take away the free choice of the individual, remove restrictions and let each get on with their lives as they choose.
- graeme 5y agoI should add, of course, that I mainly wrote that for those who 1. Really would like to avoid catching the virus for now, but 2. Think it requires ungodly levels of isolation to do What I wrote is less social than the average (one hopes) but more social than a lot of people lived the past year! But if you’d rather live less restricted and are vaccinated, go nuts. The vaccines protect quite well against severe disease and it doesn’t strike me as a bad choice to not worry about it.
- sharken 5y agoThere is absolutely no way that we can implement the above, WITHOUT losing a lot of what makes us humans in the process. I'd rather keep our pre-Covid level of human interaction than limiting it forever. But to each their own, one thing is that we must remove all restrictions so that each can choose their own way freely. This last part is what politicians have a hard time to realize, but it's a necessity.
- graeme 5y agoLiterally nothing in my list was a covid restriction. It is a list of things someone can do if they decide they don’t want to catch covid at the moment while we wait for more info.