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Maybe not even that, it could be a typical childhood ailment that you get once in your life and never again.
by corty 6y ago
Maybe not even that, it could be a typical childhood ailment that you get once in your life and never again.
- TMWNN 6y agoI suspect that, in retrospect, the first inclination of many parents when the pandemic began to hold "COVID parties" for children like the familiar "chicken pox parties"—inclination that wasn't followed, because of dire warnings about long-term health effects—was the right one.
- lamontcg 6y agoFairly definitively that was always the wrong answer. In the future: 1. Most people will get SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from their mothers 2. Early life exposure will happen 3. The SARS-CoV-2 virus will be force to make expensive mutations to avoid immune escape will come at a cost to fitness. None of the conditions can be created by what you suggest. You have the problem of having the relatively most-lethal / most-transmissible version of the virus spreading unhindered in a population of >40 year olds who have no natural immunity. The "COVID party" solution maximizes the death and cost of the virus.
- nradov 6y agoRight there are at least four other endemic human coronaviruses, with HCoV-OC43 being very similar to SARS-CoV-2. Without a vaccine the safest option for most individuals is to catch it as a child. The resulting immunity isn't perfect but it usually protects most people from serious symptoms with later reinfections.