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> Before that, I was actually one of those sickness manchilds that honestly twice a year would almost be unable to function for an entire week.

That makes sense. All the COVID prevention steps everyone took would prevent other diseases as well.

> I've been casual as can be, never touching a hand wash squirter, going out in SF outdoor and indoor dining if they didn't check,

I don't know why people are proud about not washing their hands. That was gross pre-Covid too.

> Almost no one has gotten covid of any of my friends/coworkers

Alternatively, you and your friends are fairly young, caught it, were somewhat asymptomatic, and spread it to everyone you met. After all, you don't seem to have tested at all.

I washed my hands after the restroom. I said I never touched one of the (alcohol) squirter bottles or machines that were everywhere during covid.

Other note, I have many older coworkers. I'm not really in tech, although I have a decent Saas outside of work.

Feynman speaking of the Challenger disaster in this interview seems apropos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpDg7MjHps&t=3m10s

That's a clever response, but sometimes you have to tell your mom she's a neurotic worrier, that you live at the end of a quiet lonely road, and live your life.

Not all roads are the same. And IMO the incidence and severity of covid has been drastically exaggerated.

It varies. Here, it seems everybody knows somebody that died from it in the early days. Omicron seems to be a lot easier on people than the earlier versions were.

Could be. Until omicron I basically never heard of anyone in my decently large social circle even getting covid.

I used to joke that if you offered me $100k to go get covid, I wouldn't really know how to go get it.