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What if you have the vaccine, and then get exposed to the actual virus? Would it be the best of all worlds as the existing antibodies would prevent a full on in
by koolba 5y ago
What if you have the vaccine, and then get exposed to the actual virus? Would it be the best of all worlds as the existing antibodies would prevent a full on infection but your body would also learn more generalized attacks against the virus? Or would it not be enough exposure to warrant the latter?
- randomopining 5y agoThat’s what I think and is why I actually wanted to get the virus 2+ weeks after vaccination.
- jeremyjh 5y agoYou want to get the virus so that in the future you don't...get the virus?
- 3np 5y ago1. You could control the timing and your circumstances so you can quarantine etc, as opposed to having it unplanned, maybe while traveling 2. Supposedly symptoms and forward-transmission will be milder/less right after a vaccination as opposed to months later.
- randomopining 5y agoYeah: 1. Be super healthy 2. Have full vaccine effectiveness 3. Relatively quarantined Now you’re gonna have the strongest defense. In the future you won’t unexpectedly get it and have any chance of infecting people around you. You chose when to get it. Smart all around, but very counterculture.
- anoncake 5y agoIt makes sense if people who have recovered from Covid and are presumed immune are exempt from lockdown measures.
- ordiman85 5y agoBy coincidence, my uncle got the covid nearly at the same time he got his Pfizer shot. Later, the symptoms became too serious. It seems that the vaccine didn't have enough time to protect him. He went to the hospital where he discovered he got the covid. He was under oxygen for weeks. Luckily, he recovered, but lost so much weight and now feels very weak. This is just one example, I don't know whether it would be different or similar in general. Nevertheless, it is still a reason to think that maybe it is not a good idea.