Fwiw, my wife and I altered our lives that second week in March over two years ago and haven’t nearly gone back to normal.

We don’t take the same precautions as we did back before we were vaccinated, but we still work to mitigate risk. We go to movies and the occasional concert masked. After such things, I spend the next week or two in mostly isolation and Covid tests.

Trips to the grocery store are masked, walks to the park are not.

I had let up a little on masking, but am now back at it.

Most people I know that catch it will tell me how careful they were and how they have no idea how they could catch it and after a little prying it usually ends up that they were taking risks as well.

I’ve got family back in Georgia and Alabama, places where sometimes there was no social pressure to be responsible. My young nephew and his wife got Covid and they acknowledged that they hadn’t been careful..

Most people that I’m friends with have been careful and most of them didn’t catch SARS-CoV-2.

Not saying your friends are liars. Just saying that i don’t put too much trust in anecdotes.

I don’t particularly trust firsthand anecdotes, secondhand vague accounts are worthless.

And obviously that goes for my reported accounts as well, they really mean next to nothing as data points (that’s just my microbiologist training talking)

I hope y’all stay safe in these trying times.