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TFA closes with an interesting proposal, but somehow I doubt that we'll get there before social collapse and martial law. > Immunity from Covid-19 is still an
by mirimir 7y ago
TFA closes with an interesting proposal, but somehow I doubt that we'll get there before social collapse and martial law.
> Immunity from Covid-19 is still an open scientific question but, let’s assume that is more likely to be true than not.
Huh? What's the basis for that?
> The concerns are that China, Japan, and South Korea may have actually pushed social distancing too far. Israel and now Italy are going even further to keep the virus out altogether.
I see no date on TFA, but this statement implies that it's maybe a week old.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoThere have been sufficient reports of people who either got reinfected or else had an extremely long “false recovery” period to cause the question of whether or not immunity can be relied on to be debated. Various explanations are available but none are as of yet proven.
- mirimir 7y agoI was unclear. Sorry. I was wondering why we even expect persistent immunity.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoI agree, no one that knows that they are talking about expects persistent immunity; the number I’ve heard floating about is along the lines of six months’ immunity after recovering from the illness. I’m not clear on whether the article is written with that definition of immunity or not (and based off its suggestion that this would prevent a second wave next year, etc, I’m assuming not) but I assumed it was questioning whether even six months of immunity was on the table.