So someone with very high exposure for whom no amount of being careful is likely to ever be enough. This sounds less concerning than the framing of the title.

I hope that we continue to promote self-checkout registers, low or no contact takeout at eateries and other best practices for germ control that are not an undue hardship. I hope the one takeaway we get from the pandemic is that we need to be generally more careful about germ control in a world with roughly 8 billion people.

But I think we sometimes focus our hand-wringing in the wrong places.