The article claims mostly that you shouldn't mask because you will get covid "many times over." This implies there is no difference made in how many times you g

The article claims mostly that you shouldn't mask because you will get covid "many times over." This implies there is no difference made in how many times you get it, which I haven't seen any particular reason to believe. There does seem to be some chance of long-term effects with each infection, which means there is some benefit to reducing the number of infections you get. It also doesn't account for the benefit to other people if you're asymptomatic and contagious. Sure everyone is going to get it but they don't have to get it from me. This is again the "if you can't do everything then you should do nothing" fatalism. I understand why this is alluring on a personal individual level, I'm exhausted too and would love to just give up and accept what comes for us. I don't know what's so appealing about endorsing this position to others though. --- Also the entire framing assumes that you were masking the correct amount in 2017 and the correct amount is zero. One thing that covid has made me realize is that a lot more people are vulnerable to "routine" infection than I thought, possibly including me. And that I should probably not have gone most of my life assuming multiple respiratory infections every year was inevitable, harmless, or something I was powerless to affect. If covid were gone tomorrow I'd still wear a mask on transit in winter, or in public when I'm sick.