I have no idea just what my personal choice would be if I had a city job around a lot of people. But as a libertarian (they exist in either party)-----I want the choice to be mine. Being retried and isolated---I have chosen to avoid the jab entirely and depend upon my immune system if it should be called upon. I am a health faddist about supplements. So no risky jabs for me. And the previous quotes about twisted statistics is right to the point. Hospitals are paid to include covid in some way on a death certificate--even though negligible as causation of death. All is a dangerous march toward what we call Nazism?----ew

I have no idea just what my personal choice would be if I had a city job around a lot of people. But as a libertarian (they exist in either party)-----I want the choice to be mine. Being retried and isolated---I have chosen to avoid the jab entirely and depend upon my immune system if it should be called upon. I am a health faddist about supplements. So no risky jabs for me. And the previous quotes about twisted statistics is right to the point. Hospitals are paid to include covid in some way on a death certificate--even though negligible as causation of death. All is a dangerous march toward what we call Nazism?----ew

Oh, so how come so many "break through" cases of people with 2+1 and masking. Some of them even had one of the earlier variants. And I see numerous reports of people having Covid twice or now even three times.

If it works, why isn't it working?

And masks:
The cloth ones are almost useless the weave of the cloth is so open compared to the size of the virus - "like trying to catch mosquitoes with chain link fence" by one researchers quote.
The blue surgical masks are about 10% effective according to a couple of studies reported.
The one good thing both do is catch "some" of what you cough or sneeze out in moist droplets big enough for the mask to filter. As one doctor put it "It keeps you from drooling into the patient's open incision.
The N95 masks do work fairly well but they are hard to breath through for long periods being almot 1/4 inch thick.
Especially after they get moist from your breath. People with certain problems, like my asthma, can't wear them for long without developing trouble breathing, headaches etc.

I do wear a mask when out around other people. I have a 3M made industrial/lab grade half face respirator with replaceable filter packs rated at P100. P=can be used breathing solvent fumes for up to 8 hours and the filters are good for 6 months or until they get clogged from the stuff they are filtering out. I wore it to get lab tests done today and the lab tech said "One of the doctors in the hospital wears one of those also." Back in the late spring of 2020 the first time I wore it to the hospital for a medical appointment a doctor in the hall stopped me and asked about it. Then said "I think I need one of those." It might be the same doctor as I was walking past the respiratory department at the time.

And my respirator is easier to breath in than an N95, especially for long periods.

Infection is a function of the individual.

For around 60 years I subscribed to the "hygiene hypothesis", which holds that excessive sterilization leads to loss of immune function. Most of my life I have not spent much effort washing my hands and washing my food. I felt that people have to exercise their muscles, they have to exercise their minds. Why should they not have toe exercise their immune system? And it appeared to work for me. I did not get sick often. Even as a farmer working with manure, hand washing for me was pretty much a quick rinse and wipe off on my pants.

Then my wife died, and I found another one. The new wife has an MD and is a germaphobe. She washes her hands frequently, wears gloves to do things I would do with my bare hands, and tries to avoid germs in any way she can. She holds my old view to be nonsense and believes that the immune system is in the genes. I don't get sick doing what I used to do because I chose my parents well.

I have modified my position to "a good immune system is in the genes, but without exercise it will wither and disappear".

My wife got Covid. She was in bed for 3 days with a fever and body aches (no significant pulmonary problems). I got covid. I had a sore throat overnight.