[clemailacct1]

How does one stop getting infected?

Your comment is so full of emotion and offers zero insight into how to actually achieve it - therefore, it’s pretty safe to say your advice isnt helpful here.

Masks and vaccinations dont prevent infections in a meaningful way. This is backed by real data and anecdotal data.

[trog]

Here's my anecdotal data: I'm sitting on a bus writing this wearing a respirator, as I have every bus trip for the lady few years. I've had several vaccinations. I've changed a few behaviours, but not many (e.g. I avoid packed indoor environments where possible).

I am yet to get COVID.

Saying "masks" without qualifiers is mostly pointless. Most people still associate masks with basically useless blue surgical masks.

Maybe I'm just lucky but the science of respirators is compelling and I find it hard to believe we wouldn't see a dramatic reduction in infection rates if everyone wore them.

[LastCovidWave]

If anything and everything you're doing isn't stopping spread and encouraging/normalizing behaviours that promote it in any way, that's where to start. The pandemic never ended.

Not even talking about vaccinations (we can't vax our way out of this, was always only part of it). Masking goes a long way but is also only part of it. Stop moving around. Stop gathering. Take precautions like distancing and avoiding indoor spaces. Stop the spread. COVID never ended and as it's airborne all spaces are unsafe.