Sincere question about safety of airline travel and COVID-19

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4. I'm in a high risk group

64 with diabetes, heart condition.

I've had Covid-19... and I've been vaccinated.

I am planning two trips this summer, one to Costa Rica and one to Europe.

I will be taking a PCR test 48 hours before each flight and before returning home.

I think humanity's response to this virus has been wholly inadequate... and that the pandemic will turn into endemic... with new vaccines offered every 6 months to a year to fight new variants. that we will never vaccinate 7 billion people fast enough to eradicate the virus before it mutates and that a new version emerges that is current vaccine resistant. SARS-Cov-2 will be like the flu, only much deadlier.

That said, I will not live my life in fear.

I will wear a mask as part of every day life in public near other people... theater, movies, sporting events. Dining will be outdoors, hopefully away from others. hand washing will be the norm. Things we should be doing anyway to prevents all types of communicable disease.