Possibly there are scientists who consider people with your views 'as dumb asses. And dangerous too.'
I'm sure there are. Like there are flat earthers. And scientists defending creationism or climate change.
You need to understand that those are a very tiny minority and are always people who have no real knowledge and have not done any real work in the field.
Their beliefs and opinions about those subjects are not based on science, despite their claims.
In the scientific community we may disagree on many things. We do. All the time. But they tend to be on the finer details. We even often disagree with our governments and their advisors.
But we all agree (minus quite frankly the nutjobs) that this is a serious pandemic and that contact between people is the main drive, and must be reduced significantly or made safe by PPE and hygiene.
We'll agree that lockdowns are very damaging tools, but sometimes are needed if governments can't control the spread.
We'll agree that testing and tracing is a very important tool.
We've come to realise that transmission by aerosols and before symptoms is quite important. We may disagree, or be unsure, on how important.
We all know that health systems have limits, like testing labs, and tracing teams. We fully understand that you can't magic up trained people to do jobs properly.
We all agree that transmission is higher in environments with many people, with poor ventilation, with people talking loudly.
We also understand that the death rates increase substantially with age and certain conditions.
They go up from 50 years of age and for men. By 80 years of age it can be about 10%, not 1%.
The probability that your elderly relatives have of dying, if they get infected, is more like 1 in 10 than 1 in a 100.
Not to mention the trauma of being alone in hospital for weeks.
If you think a lonely Christmas is sad, consider a lonely time in ICU for weeks, surrounded by doctors and nurses instead of relatives. If they survive, which is more unlikely if they need ICU.
Unless you've quarantined before meeting them, the probability of having one infected person in the family meeting increases by each household, by each child in school and by each person with more contacts, and each person who rarely wears a mask when they should.
If there's 0.1% chance for each to be infective, for 10 people it means there's a 1% chance that the virus will spread to many in that family. It can easily be 50% - 5 people.
You may be OK this time, but for 1 in 100 families across the country the effects could be devastating.
Then people from those families will go to your schools, your jobs, your community.
For the society in general, the increase in cases and in people in hospital will be very damaging indeed.
I wish it wasn't like this. I wish we could all get together like in previous years.
This is the reality, and what we have seen happening again and again. People think they're the exception. People think the risk is low. Until it hits them. Until it hits me and you.