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Every time this article is posted I laugh to myself a bit. At this point the "masks may give people immunity" sounds like part of the "unlocking narrative". S
by just-juan-post 6y ago
Every time this article is posted I laugh to myself a bit.
At this point the "masks may give people immunity" sounds like part of the "unlocking narrative". Stories that are used to bring the public out of the panicdemic craze that's swept the world.
You know what else gives immunity? Not wearing a mask.
You know what not wearing a mask grants? Herd immunity.
Two concepts that we aren't allowed to talk about on the internet.
- fortran77 6y agoThis was a _little_ more subtle, though. Mild and asymptomatic cases may be related to the amount of virus that you've inhaled. So not wearing a mask has a higher chance of killing you, and wearing a mask gives you a better chance of contracting a light or asymptomatic case that will make you immune.
- djohnston 6y agoIf that's true should young healthy people sign up to start microdosing some covid-19?
- rsynnott 6y agoI mean, if a vaccine stays long-term unachievable, this might not be the craziest route to start investigating. This is essentially what people did for smallpox before a vaccine was available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
- Terretta 6y agoinoculum - a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease The idea is w/o the mask, inoculum dose probably puts the D in COVID. With the mask, you might get SARS-CoV-2–specific T-cell immunity without getting COVID.