Meh, I'll do what I can. Getting sick is a pain. I agree, Matt. It's really unlikely to do me in.
For you personally, at your fitness level? IMO:
Even if you got hit hard, I'd probably think it would be a bad flu for you - for me it was 20 day of total sickness; three days leading up to six days of peak sickness, and 11 days of sniffles. To be fair, aside from bacterial pneumonia I got in 2006, I had never been sicker.
But I just don't see fit and healthy men dying of it. My doctor mentioned one of his athlete patients being ventilated, but all such cases I've heard have been cherry-picked.
The vaccine seems to offer about 70% protection from serious outcomes from what I can tell. My reason for not being vaccinated is the manufacturer legal indemnity. If the manufacturers were required to pay damages for adverse events, I wouldn't have as much hesitancy. Although to be fair, I never get the flu shot, and COVID is just another flu for men at our health level. Rare exceptions apply...and personally I would hate to recommend you not get the vaccine, only to find you ended up getting a serious outcome.
But nevertheless, statistically speaking, your odds of a serious adverse outcome are on the range of 1 in 1,000 to lower than 1 in 10,000. Somewhere around there.
As for the mask thing, I put one on at work at least 3 days a week doing drywall so I'm really not bothered about them, and I already own thousands of dollars worth of top level gear. Strongly against mandates tho. Governments are out of control to the point of illegitimacy.
The N-95 mask by 3M offers the most protection.
They are mainly for source control - to protect others.
Why I don't wear a mask personally is that in addition to having a legal medical exemption for autism...well...I don't have COVID.
So...who am I protecting my wearing a mask? I live alone in a detached home, and live off my savings. I have the means to fully self-isolate while sick...so again, who am I protecting?
If I do get sick, I stay home. If I go out, it's only when I'm not sick, and that's why I don't wear a mask.
If I even suspected I had COVID, I would stay home.
So...again, my question is: who am I putting at risk?
If someone could show that I was putting anyone at risk, then I would stay home.
Asymptomatic spread - getting healthy people to believe they were sick when they weren't/aren't - is one or the main ways that got this sham to last as long as it had.
Take away the hysteria caused by healthy people wearing masks as a visual reminder of the pandemic, and things would be totally different.
As you said, governments are out of control to the point of illigitimacy...I don't think there is any way this stuff keeps up forever.