'It breaks my brain sometimes,' Dennis Rosloniec told me. For half a decade now, the 44-year-old media technician and mountain biker from Green Bay, Wisconsin, has done everything he can to understand the risks of getting COVID. He's read the published studies. He's looked at meta-analyses. And here's the truth as far as he can tell: Each time he's infected, the chances that something really bad will happen to his body ratchet up a little higher. Dennis is not immunocompromised. He doesn't have a chronic illness. He's not obese or hypertensive or unvaccinated. He's just a thoughtful autodidact, the kind of guy who references both The Simpsons and the Stoics as he talks. 'I'm a fairly large, fit, white dude, for lack of a better term,' he said. But even now, in 2025, Dennis Rosloniec is afraid of COVID. Someone else might say he's strangely so. Dennis is still masking quite a bit. He's wary of attending indoor social gatherings unless they seem especially important. And he's been...
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