Please don't delete-edit your posts like that. It leaves the thread incoherent and isn't fair to the reader or to the commenters who replied.

Doing it in a snarky way is particularly not cool.

The reason why people react negatively to those who have been bringing up this sort of thing is that it always comes with this nonsense at the end:

> They are hiding, scared, waiting for the government to officially announce that it is once again safe to return to the world.

If it were a leveled discussion of facts, without the obvious agenda and judgment attached, people would not react so negatively.

> They are hiding, scared, waiting for the government to officially announce that it is once again safe to return to the world.

Would you believe that many of us are not scared, but rather that we decided based on facts about aerosol transmission that nonessential travel/social events put other people's grandparents at unneccesary risk?

There is a disease going around. It transmits by droplets that you cannot see. People can be infectious before showing symptoms or without symptoms at all. It affects some people at lot more than others. I don't blame people for being scared.

The winning move actually is not to play the social game for a few months. Currently, the best people are the ones you do not meet at all.

? Or likely the complete opposite in that most people don't have access to the direct science, nor have the ability to translate it into policy, and we rely on institutions and the medical community to set up the basis for behaviours, that COVID is real, it's literally killed 550 000 people of all ages in just 1 year, that anyone can get it, and that it's rational to follow the advice until indicated otherwise. And finally 'we don't really know' the specific nature of transmission and it's rational (and low cost) to be safer than sorry, and to wipe down surfaces.