> If COVID increases the hazard ratios there isn't much I can do. As far as I can tell, everyone is going to get COVID. There is no avoiding that.
You could wear a mask. You could, if your profession allows it, work from home. You could avoid large social gatherings. You could - if you aren't yet - get your vaxx up to date.
Less direct, and with a longer time horizon, but more lasting impact: You could lobby for clean air laws. You could lobby for easier/cheaper access to testing as well as a better data collection to know where we are. You could lobby that we don't just abandon Operation Warp Speed, but get our shit together and invest in research on mucosal pan-corona vaccines.
> It would be interesting to know how much worse it is than a typical flu though, just for academic interest.
Well, if you choose to do nothing "because everybody gets it", it likely won't stay academical.
You could wear a mask. You could, if your profession allows it, work from home. You could avoid large social gatherings. You could - if you aren't yet - get your vaxx up to date.
Less direct, and with a longer time horizon, but more lasting impact: You could lobby for clean air laws. You could lobby for easier/cheaper access to testing as well as a better data collection to know where we are. You could lobby that we don't just abandon Operation Warp Speed, but get our shit together and invest in research on mucosal pan-corona vaccines.
> It would be interesting to know how much worse it is than a typical flu though, just for academic interest.
Well, if you choose to do nothing "because everybody gets it", it likely won't stay academical.