"And also that I could likely do just as much to protect those around me by continuing to only see people outside, wear a mask, etc. [...] I don’t know how we g

"And also that I could likely do just as much to protect those around me by continuing to only see people outside, wear a mask, etc. [...] I don’t know how we got Covid, since we were continuing to be pretty careful / anti-social." I read this as "I thought crossing my fingers would help me avoid getting sick, going against the general advice in basically all countries in the world, and for some weird reason it didn't work!". Just because you manage to find figures that confuse you, or back up your previously held beliefs, you get to say "the experts don't agree"? Your inability, as an engineer - not a medical professional, to make sense of seemingly conflicting data, gives you the right to proclaim that? "I’m worried that if we don’t get off this path soon, it’s going to get harder and harder to turn back. And I don’t want to see where that ends up. At the end of the day we’re all just trying to do our best." - what if you're the problem? Sometimes I think intelligence is mostly about the ability to rationalize your decisions.