I suspect nobody commenting here is equipped to analyze critically the science being done either on the virus or the vaccine, yet everybody speaks with authorit

I suspect nobody commenting here is equipped to analyze critically the science being done either on the virus or the vaccine, yet everybody speaks with authority on what's relevant and what's bullhockey. A high-school biology class will give you good general priors and instincts about how things generally work and is as good as you're gonna get trying to understand what's going on currently without a relevant degree or a few years of hindsight for the politicization to die down. Infections generally leave antibodies behind therefore I'm going to assume people who have been infected have some immunity to this variant. Masks reduce the spread of spit therefore I'm going to assume they are generally useful to combat the spread. I'm sure this will strike some as being anti-science but having seen how the sausage gets made wrt science and medicine I don't trust myself or the journalists to interpret or qualify the new results we get every week.