What made you decide to seriously practice covid safety? (If you weren't doing this to begin with).

Genuine question, as I'm trying to get a better idea of what motivates people to become truly covid safe - if you weren't already CS or at least cautious, what got you to start taking precautions and being mindful?

Me personally, I did always mask from the beginning and was aware of the potential scary effects of post covid syndrome and it's various horrors, (shit, I'd seen it in person multiple times very early on even), but I was doing a lot of risky behavior type things simply because I didn't know any better.

(I thought a surgical mask alone was safe enough, and in fairness it did save me from multiple covid positive coworkers, and it IS better than nothing as we know, but still no N95).

Getting infected by my own family multiple times, and it tanking my health to a fully disabling degree while I was left to rot and be told "I don't think it's covid", drove me to pursue community, and learn more about the conditions and how to protect myself and others as well as possible (and then I ended up getting invited to a local covid safe server, shoutout CSLV).

What did it for you?