"I've never had COVID," I said earlier this year to a friend who canceled our plans because she was down with it for the third or fourth time. "That seems unlikely," she said. "You’re probably just someone who doesn’t show symptoms." Although I wanted to believe that, I wasn’t so sure: "I'm still one of the few who wears a mask..." Living in Japan certainly helps with that; here, it's quite normal. But even in the Netherlands, I wore a mask on the train; my visits are always short, and, as I reasoned, getting sick would just be a waste of my time.

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