I'm getting confused about risk

SailinAway · 01-29-2022, 09:46 PM

I'm hearing more and more that "eventually everyone is going to get Covid." Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

More and more people I know either have Covid right now or have had it, including in my neighborhood. One person has had two breakthrough infections.

Let's say I'm triple vaccinated and I'm able to not be in contact with people except at the grocery store. So eventually a large percentage of people around me have had Covid but I have not. Does that mean I'm more vulnerable or less vulnerable than the people around me who have been infected?

Note these important factors:
(1) The last I read (a while ago) was that if you're triple vaccinated your protection falls to something like 37% after x months (I can't remember how many).
(2) I did an online risk assessment for going into a grocery store in Belknap County (e.g., Tilton Market Basket). The result was that there is a 99.9% chance that there are infected people in the store! My own risk of infection was rated as "moderate" if I wore a KN95 mask, stayed only 30 minutes, and kept 6 feet away from everyone. Those odds aren't very favorable, especially when less than 50% of people at Market Basket are wearing masks.

01-29-2022, 09:46 PM	#1
SailinAway Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 991 Thanks: 256 Thanked 280 Times in 169 Posts	I'm getting confused about risk I'm hearing more and more that "eventually everyone is going to get Covid." Is this a good thing or a bad thing? More and more people I know either have Covid right now or have had it, including in my neighborhood. One person has had two breakthrough infections. Let's say I'm triple vaccinated and I'm able to not be in contact with people except at the grocery store. So eventually a large percentage of people around me have had Covid but I have not. Does that mean I'm more vulnerable or less vulnerable than the people around me who have been infected? Note these important factors: (1) The last I read (a while ago) was that if you're triple vaccinated your protection falls to something like 37% after x months (I can't remember how many). (2) I did an online risk assessment for going into a grocery store in Belknap County (e.g., Tilton Market Basket). The result was that there is a 99.9% chance that there are infected people in the store! My own risk of infection was rated as "moderate" if I wore a KN95 mask, stayed only 30 minutes, and kept 6 feet away from everyone. Those odds aren't very favorable, especially when less than 50% of people at Market Basket are wearing masks.