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I'd also like to never be sick, but that's not a realistic request in reality.


I agree but it’s very much feasible with good habits to go without a single symptom for years. I just gave you examples of people I know that have done that, and suddenly them all got COVID but you decided to gloss over that.


OK, so we have to weigh up your __desire__ not to get sick (at all) with what is statistically likely to be a mild illness vs the very real (to my mind, and others) downsides of extended periods in lockdown.

Just because it was feasible (which I question TBH) to go without a single symptom for years, doesn't mean that is the norm or a desired state. A cold every now and then is quite normal at least here in Australia and not something I'm overly concerned about.

"Suddenly all of them got COVID...", they must be behaving differently from people I know or be in drastically different situations as I do know people who have contracted COVID, but it's far from the norm.


> we have to weigh up your __desire__ not to get sick

> vs the very real (to my mind, and others) downsides of extended periods in lockdown.

We certainly don't have to, and this thread was never about that. We were discussing OP's idea that COVID is statistically inexistent for vaccinated people.




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