Originally Posted by
sbrower
Until 30 days ago, I took the risk that I would catch malaria, yellow fever, rabies, hep A, hep C and about 1000 other diseases I didn't even pay attention to. So the issue is when enough people will believe that as a combination of: actual chance of getting sick; actual chance of getting badly sick; herd immunity; personal immunity; etc. all mixes together and makes it a background noise (just like the danger of letting an Uber driver take me to the airport).
None of these have the contagious potential that Covid-19 does. Hep A has a vaccine, as does yellow fever. If you are in any sort of high-risk job, you get a rabies vaccine, and if you have an untoward animal encounter, you get the rabies vaccine then. No one worries they are going to give malaria to other residents of their high-rise apartment building, or fellow workers in their skyscraper, by being in the elevator. And so on.