I had covid19, it was terrible, I got vaccinated. I don’t want to take any further measures to prevent the flu or the common cold or whatever illness that existed prior to COVID19. Give me the flu and common cold when I can fight it off, so I can fight off it off better when I inevitably get it again as an older human being.
The assumption that children are better off with masks and hand hygiene is unfathomable to me, especially that it’s much better for everyone to get COVID19 now (if they’re vaccinated or young) than to get it a year later (let alone years later!). Let’s face it, cases will rise eventually as more and more people becoming less cautious everyday, restrictions are further lifted, and the obvious fact that even if you vaccinate everyone, you’re not preventing transmission nonetheless. We barely managed to fend ourselves off with harsh lockdowns, we are not goin to do better (spread wise) when things open up, we will fair better in terms case-to-hospitalisations ratio though, so take that win and move on.
Obviously, if you can prevent it all together that would great, but chances of this happening are ZERO. We failed to contain it with 1.5 years of restrictions when everyone took measures as seriously as they could. Compare it to now and how the majority aren’t taking it seriously anymore, regardless of what you think about them, this is as good as it’s going to get. You want a healthier world, address problems like rising costs of owning a house, better dietary options that don’t cost a premium, less working days per week, cleaner air and improve sleep quality by doing all that I mentioned, not by chasing mirage (and stunting children’s immune system development in the process).