I mean it depends on how you define "finding peace". For me it surely ain't living in a concrete jungle with only artifical nature around. To each their own though.

If you're looking for peace and quiet, why live in NYC?

I mistook you for someone else. I thought you were lobbying for mandatory covid vaccination.

Are you trying to say then that vaccine mandates no longer make sense since "breakthrough" infections are extremely common and the main goal of vaccination is personal protection against severe illness and death?

I'm no longer protecting you and you are no longer protecting me. I take the vaccine and I protect myself. You take the vaccine and you protect yourself. Everybody can make their own medical decisions based on their current situation.

What does that question have anything to do with what I said in my most recent comment? Do you want to start the same coversation all over again? I think you can just look at the history and guide yourself through.

What's the relevance of bringing up vax mandate at this point in the conversation?

Of course vaccination plays a role. Natural immunity and the fact that omicron is less severe by being much less likely to travel to your lungs, also plays a role.

Did you forget that we had the flu vaccines for close to a century? Why would you want to suddenly compare covid without the vaccines to flu with the vaccines?

We're on an even playing field now by comparing covid with the vaccines to the flu with the vaccines.

Hello? Public health? Estimated billion annual flu infections around the globe and tens of thousands of dead Americans each year. Are tens of thousands of dead Americans not a matter of public health?

Also, why compare only the last two years? Many millions of Americans died from the flu over the years. If you want to compare an outbreak of covid-19 where most of the population is naive to the flu, compare it to the 1918 outbreak of the flu, not when the flu has mutated down over the years and people became more immune to the virus.

As a matter of fact, ever since omicron came out, upon infection, you are now more likely to die from your regular seasonal flu rather than covid.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10598195/Covid-deadly-flu-scientists-say.html

That's a terrible argument, if anything you can argue that seatbelts don't prevent death upon accident, but they do reduce the chance of death.

Seatbelts were never advertised as preventing accidents (infection), but vaccines were infact advertised as 95% effective in USA and 100% effective against infection in Africa. Most importantly, claims were made by medical professionals that even if you happened to be infected by the virus, you would be a dead end to it, ie you won't transmit it to others. Transmission was the main selling point of the mandates.

“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community,” Fauci said. “In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.”

Please tell me how you got your job taken pre-covid due to "public health" if you had not gotten your annual flu shot.