Let’s set aside for a moment that you don't get ticks from going outside where I live. You can check your body for them and remove them before they transmit a m

Let’s set aside for a moment that you don't get ticks from going outside where I live. You can check your body for them and remove them before they transmit a meaningful bacterial load, and Lyme disease can be treated with antibiotics. It doesn’t spread from human to human. And people take it seriously. Let’s even set aside that you don’t know what my own health situation is, let alone what people in my life I might be leery of accidentally passing it on to because they’re elderly or immunocompromised. A friend of mine has been essentially bedridden for the past 2 years with long covid. It keeps getting _worse_, not better. Modern medicine can do nothing for him. And yet people treat this disease like it’s nothing more than a mild head cold, and casually go to parties and offices and send their kids to schools while sick with it, even after testing positive, without taking the slightest precaution to protect others. No, I’m not exposing myself to that any more than I have to. I’m sorry that you think that’s extreme risk aversion. I’ve done my own assessments of risk and decided it’s not worth it.