I'm so sorry to hear about your harrowing experience with Covid. That must have been terrifying. My example about listeriosis was to illustrate that when we assess risk, we are often working with incomplete information, which is often coming to us from trusted authorities. I am absolutely not comparing dying from Covid to eating cheese. I'm pointing out that our ability to assess Covid risks is just as murky (if not moreso) than the risk assessments many pregnant women have to undertake to gauge whether or not an activity will harm their unborn child. As for car crash risks, according to the CDC 459,150 people died from Covid in 2021 and according to the CDC, a vaccinated/boosted person is 20 times less likely to die if they get Covid than an unvaccinated person. So that means that even if the same number of people were to die in 2022 (let's hope not), around 22,957 would likely be vaccinated/boosted. (Of course, that could change with a new variant, but that's the information we're working with now.) Meanwhile, 42,000+ people died in car crashes last year. I couldn't link that to a single source because you have to back into the data, but the same can be done with comparing Covid-related hospitalizations to car crash hospitalizations as well. To be clear, I'm in no way trying to discount your experience, or that of anyone else who has suffered from Covid. I'm merely trying to look at data from a broader viewpoint so we can attempt to make more informed choices about how we live our daily lives.