<![CDATA[I was chatting with a friend and said, “I think #COVID19 risks today are where people thought they were back in 2002.”]]>I was chatting with a friend and said, “I think risks today are where people thought they were back in 2002.”

Four years ago, people ripped off the masks and pretended COVID was gone—even with significant multiple surges a year.

Who knows what will happen this summer and winter, but right now, COVID is the lowest in four years, and we've had two years of consecutively smaller surges.

I still take some care, but I've loosened my precaution in line with much lower risks.

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It seems we're seeing less LC than we used to with higher infection rates.

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