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Oh, another thing to consider when you are thinking about safety is the vaccination rate in your area or state.

The US as a whole currently has 50% of the population fully vaccinated, and 58% with one shot, and the individual states vary a lot.

Canada is 58.8% fully vaccinated, 71.7% with one shot.

UK is 57% fully vaccinated, 70.2% with one shot.

Australia is 14.7% fully vaccinated, 32.6% with one shot.

(All those numbers are from typing “vaccine rate” and then the country name into Google, which gives you a chart. They get their data from Our World In Data.)

Even if you are not concerned about actually dying, you might still be concerned about still getting covid. It will be inconvenient: you may have to quarantine (you should quarantine as much as possible if you get covid, even if your jurisdiction doesn’t require it), it will interrupt your work or any travel plans, it will make you ineligible to enter a lot of different buildings or to do certain types of appointments. So even if you live alone, have no high risk family members to consider, are fully vaccinated & healthy, etc, you may still want to try to avoid getting covid.

So in that case, you should keep track of the vaccination rates & also the current covid rates in your area, and take precautions accordingly. If the vaccine rates are low, or the covid rates start to increase, you will want to be more careful.