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The body of water might not matter, but how frequently you choose to jump into that shark infested water and not expect to be attacked sure does.
Not sure if you're deliberately distorting my position, or just truly misunderstanding it, but I highlighted the main point of my argument (The risk is incremental.), and added the Edit for a reason. The increased risk determination for any set of risky activities, even if the risk level is the same for each, is a function of how frequently one engages in those activities.
As a matter of fact, if you take just one activity, going to say Home Depot as an example, then the guy/gal who goes there 4 times a week, is taking on more risk of contracting Covid, than someone who goes twice a week. (Yes it is low, but quantifiable none the less).
Increased frequency - increased probability - hence increased risk.
Its a risk/reward determination that each person/society has to make, and some things will be worth the risk, while others might not.
Let's assume that a person goes to the grocery store once per week. And maybe to Home Depot once in that same week (remember the crapper is broke), and they go out to eat maybe twice. Now lets put them on vacation in a beach town nine hundred miles from home for the same week. They still go to the grocery store to stock up, no difference there. They go to the beach store to get little Jimmy a floatie. Since they don't have to go to Home depot because they don't have to fix the crapper at the rental, no difference there either. The beach is open air so same as going to the park. You'll still eat out some. You might be tempted to do that more than twice like you usually do at home but there's a pandemic so you just cook in the rental. No more risk there. The only thing you're doing that is out of the ordinary is being in another town and getting on a plane where masks are mandated and the air is changed every five or six minutes. Travelling does not carry more risk than living normally.