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There's another answer here though which is to skip getting naturally infected with the worst variant of this strain of SARS-CoV-2 and instead catching whatever
by lamontcg 5y ago
There's another answer here though which is to skip getting naturally infected with the worst variant of this strain of SARS-CoV-2 and instead catching whatever is going around the world in a year or two after it has been forced to make costly mutations to achieve immune escape.
SARS-CoV-2 will very likely become endemic and everyone in the world will eventually get naturally exposed to it, but delta is probably the optimally worst and most virulent form of the virus to get naturally exposed to.
And yeah kids should get vaccinated, the vaccines are safer than the virus for everyone, that shouldn't even be a question.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> SARS-CoV-2 will very likely become endemic and everyone in the world will eventually get naturally exposed to it, but delta is probably the optimally worst and most virulent form of the virus to get naturally exposed to. Is it? I thought early signs were that Lambda is worse.
- lamontcg 5y agoLambda is still a VOI not a VOC even after months of monitoring. There might still be other variants after delta but at some point it cannot become infinitely transmissible and virulent. It also won't be able to become more transmissible and virulent while also achieving complete immune escape (complete escape likely isn't even possible from T-cells). Similar to the 1918 pandemic the worst case virus is likely to be at the tail end of the first round of the pandemic, the endemic virus will be less virulent.