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I would quite literally rather contract covid than live like that for any period of time.

• graeme 5y ago
  Apart 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 ago
    Difference 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 ago
  I 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.