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> spread it to their family Family, friends, grandparents, colleagues at work. And those will undoubtedly spread it further, until it eventually reaches people
by Slartie 6y ago
> spread it to their family
Family, friends, grandparents, colleagues at work. And those will undoubtedly spread it further, until it eventually reaches people that it actually kills. There simply is no way to safely perform a deliberate "self-infection" in order to get antibodies other than by committing to a radical externally-enforced quarantine for the duration of the infection. And I personally wouldn't trust most of the prime candidates for such a self-infection (young adults fed up with the lack of parties and entertainment) to be responsible enough for that, which is why I confront any ideas that might incentivize such behavior, like immunity passports, with extreme doubt and caution.
- JulianMorrison 6y agoThey'd have to quarantine from the moment of potential infection too, because of asymptomatic spread.
- Slartie 6y agoWhen talking about deliberate self-infection, I assumed that there was no "possible" infection. If someone self-infects in an organized fashion, he knows exactly with nearly 100% certainty the point in time at which he became infected, because that would be when he exposed himself to the virus deliberately in a way that practically guarantees a successful infection.