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Some of this can always be explained by the "lizardman constant": https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-f

Some of this can always be explained by the "lizardman constant": https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and... Also, ballpark 20% of Americans already had the disease, and the benefit for them (while still there) is lower. Also pregnancy. So multiple reasons why 10% is probably not crazy. For what it was worth, I was also a bit confused by the order, as I think they randomize it or something and almost tapped the wrong one.

IgorPartola 6y ago
Immunity from having COVID lasts about 3 months, it seems. Immunity from the vaccine will last for a year or more and will still work as expected even if you had COVID. “I’ve had COVID” is a bad reason to refuse the vaccine.
- samatman 6y ago
  This is simply incorrect, although I don't blame you for thinking so since there were some sensationalist news articles tripping over themselves to imply that it was the case. Rates of COVID reinfection remain vanishingly small.
- rglullis 6y ago
  Mind to share sources about the immunity lasting only 3 months? From what I read, Corona-virii are in general slow to mutate and infected people should be immune for a longer time. Also, not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this idea that a vaccine should neatly work in a way that it would be recommended to take it on every season smells of a pharma PR submarine.
  - Izkata 6y ago
    It comes from a misunderstanding: antibodies last around that long, but so far no one's T-Cells have stopped reacting to the virus. Immunity lasting only as long as the antibodies is also how I understood it to work until mid-summer.
    - rglullis 6y ago
      Yeah, I remember an article from October claiming only 5 cases of reinfection. To me these are more likely to have happened due to the people having compromised immune systems than to some specific property of the novel corona.
- grumple 6y ago
  Experts say active immunity likely lasts for years. Antibodies drop off potentially quickly but that’s not a big deal if you have active immunity.
jonwinstanley 6y ago
Agree. There is always a few people who put no just to be an ass
__s 6y ago
> I also think most of us don’t know someone who believes reptilian aliens in human form control all the major nations of Earth. Really? I know multiple people who genuinely believe this. Yes you'll always get some constant of random picks, but you also have to understand that our social circles hugely limit us from representative samples of the population's opinions. The only people I know who have actually been in crazy cat lady houses were because they worked as repairmen, since there you'll get a sample of the population which needs their furnace looked at sometimes

IgorPartola 6y ago

Immunity from having COVID lasts about 3 months, it seems. Immunity from the vaccine will last for a year or more and will still work as expected even if you had COVID. “I’ve had COVID” is a bad reason to refuse the vaccine.

samatman 6y ago
This is simply incorrect, although I don't blame you for thinking so since there were some sensationalist news articles tripping over themselves to imply that it was the case. Rates of COVID reinfection remain vanishingly small.
rglullis 6y ago
Mind to share sources about the immunity lasting only 3 months? From what I read, Corona-virii are in general slow to mutate and infected people should be immune for a longer time. Also, not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this idea that a vaccine should neatly work in a way that it would be recommended to take it on every season smells of a pharma PR submarine.
- Izkata 6y ago
  It comes from a misunderstanding: antibodies last around that long, but so far no one's T-Cells have stopped reacting to the virus. Immunity lasting only as long as the antibodies is also how I understood it to work until mid-summer.
  - rglullis 6y ago
    Yeah, I remember an article from October claiming only 5 cases of reinfection. To me these are more likely to have happened due to the people having compromised immune systems than to some specific property of the novel corona.
grumple 6y ago
Experts say active immunity likely lasts for years. Antibodies drop off potentially quickly but that’s not a big deal if you have active immunity.

jonwinstanley 6y ago

Agree. There is always a few people who put no just to be an ass

__s 6y ago

> I also think most of us don’t know someone who believes reptilian aliens in human form control all the major nations of Earth. Really? I know multiple people who genuinely believe this. Yes you'll always get some constant of random picks, but you also have to understand that our social circles hugely limit us from representative samples of the population's opinions. The only people I know who have actually been in crazy cat lady houses were because they worked as repairmen, since there you'll get a sample of the population which needs their furnace looked at sometimes