And if the odds of infection are not in your favour one is only relying on the odds of it giving you long term health issues - and those odds are not ones a person can alter as much as the odds of infections. So principle of "work on what you can control" points to avoiding infection.
In short: stories about Taylor Lorenz maskless seem to be unreliable sources focusing on a single pic without considering measures taken to reduce infection risk - which one can learn about from Taylor's thread; folks can reduce infection risk & those same sources don't generally seem keen on that!