I'm Not Afraid

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I live in San Luis Obispo County in California. My neighborhood is a typical housing tract. Once in a while people take walks along the sidewalk or in the park. Most people don't wear masks when they are outside walking. They do move away when they are about to get near someone from another family so that they can maintain social distance. Our police and sheriff here do not actively enforce the masking and other virus related laws unless there are serious violations that are likely to affect public safety. Grocery stores and other businesses do require masks before letting you in, but I once passed someone in an aisle who had no mask and was coughing without covering his mouth. Fortunately I didn't get sick. I don't wear a mask when walking outside. I try to maintain social distancing. I'm almost 80. I'm not afraid anymore. My research has shown that if I get the virus my chance of dying is still only 5%. At my age I'm more likely to die of something else one of these days anyway. I try to keep my immune system strong all year every year, especially during flu season. I don't plan to get vaccinated this year. I've researched that, too. If I get sick with anything, or even feel I'm coming down with something, I stay home until I'm fully recovered. I rarely get flu shots and have had the flu only once (that I'm aware of) in the last few years. This country has supported the idea of personal responsibility paired with constitutional liberty since its founding. It's only in the last few decades it's become such a nanny state. I'm old enough to have watched the transformation. I had Scarlet Fever when I was a child before they had antibiotics. I also lived through a polio epidemic when I was young, and that was scary. When the polio vaccine became available, mothers rushed to get their children vaccinated and we got our shots willingly. We'd seen the pictures of children in iron lungs. For some reason I'm not afraid of Covid as I was of polio. I'm in God's hands. He controls how long I live. My son died at 14 and he was as healthy as one could be. We are all in danger as soon as we step outside our doors. I will stay away from others when I'm sick for their sake. They also need to take responsibility for keeping a social distance from others and wearing a mask when appropriate. But the government should not shut down businesses and then let untested people cross our border, crowd them together, and turn them loose to disappear and possibly infect many others. If citizens need to be regulated, so do people need to be tested before entering our country. Either our government is serious about keeping everyone safe or it's all politics. I tend to think it's the latter. In response to @Chellezhere