Temporal relationships matter in epidemics
because the implications of endemicity are different from the early acceleration phase. Also, you will find yourself talking about two different things if you cite your individual anecdotes in a discussion about population level evidence.
I have anecdotes also but they are pointless to mention in this context, much less meander away from a collegial discussion or insult people personally.
I believe you said that it’s folly to try to protect ourselves from Covid? Dictionary definition of “folly”: “Lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight.” That seemed a bit uncollegial.
The reason why I told my personal story is that I represent millions of similar people who had to live in fear throughout the pandemic due to the selfish behaviors of people who had no concept of having any social obligations toward others, thinking only of their personal freedoms, framed politically.
EDIT: With an election approaching, this is not a time to be silent when people post an antisocial, antidemocratic agenda associated with an unhinged candidate who openly plans to suspend the rule of law and defy the Constitution again. The same type of agenda, now greatly intensified and explicit, that led to the US having one of the highest Covid mortality rates in the world and the deaths of over one million Americans. Collegiality is nice, but it’s not going to protect us from the real “folly.”
I would assume that the OP was interested in how kayakers generally fared with the pandemic. From what was posted, it would seem that the majority chose to be vaxed and boosted. Nobody reported any serious complications from this. Kayakers are generally reasonably fit and active, more so than the very old and infirm or the general population of couch potatoes. Vaccinated or not, most who did get Covid had a reasonably easy time of it compared to the general population.
Of course, if anyone died, they didn’t post.
Dang, a biased sample. I knew it!