I'm from Algiers, Africa. Practically nobody wears masks. It is extremely rare to find someone wearing one. Few people are vaccinated. Most people I know had it

I'm from Algiers, Africa. Practically nobody wears masks. It is extremely rare to find someone wearing one. Few people are vaccinated. Most people I know had it (young) with minor effects (taste and smell loss, some had a mild fever, others had sore muscles). I spend a lot of time in places with extreme proximity and promiscuity. Closed spaces with a hundred usual people wearing no masks. The underlying vibe is that whatever could have happened would have happened in two years already. It wasn't like that in the beginning. We had lockdowns and curfews. We spent a lot of time forbidden from going out before 0600 and after 1300. They change it "according to the situation" (1500,1700,1800,1900,2000,2200,2300, etc). There's no curfew now but they may apply it soon, there's no communication except when they enforce it. I don't recall where I have read something on the impact of BCG vaccine on COVID-19, and others claiming it has no effects, but all Algerians have a scar on the forearm. You only notice that it's a thing when traveling for the first time and people ask you about it, and when there are memes like "How do you recognize an Algerian abroad ? Look at their forearm for a scar". Mine looks like a spaceship. Some other sources address the possibility of the different genetics having a role. There are relatively few sources of information about the stats. Testing is practically non existent. I also know a few people who have died and the communicated cause of death was COVID-19. Parents of friends of the family and older people. This is only anecdotal. There's practically no data, and there's a heavy survivorship bias.