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The vaccine is highly effective at preventing severe disease requiring hospitalization, but nothing is 100% (after 6 months, Pfizer is 97% effective at preventi
by Johnny555 5y ago
The vaccine is highly effective at preventing severe disease requiring hospitalization, but nothing is 100% (after 6 months, Pfizer is 97% effective at preventing severe disease) -- I'm not going to deliberately expose myself to something that could put me in a hospital.
And no point, really. If I'm going to force myself to have the disease to build up immunity, why not just wait until I'm accidentally exposed (which may not happen)?
- randomopining 5y agoThe whole point of my strategy would be that perhaps Delta is a precursor to a, let's say, Zeta variant that has almost complete evasion to the vaccine. Let's say in January or something. So what you're doing is giving your body a high chance to crush the Delta and gain some cross-immunity towards the future evasive variant. Whereas if you just relied on the vaccine, it might not even work well in January. Obviously this is just conjecture, but I think a real possibility.
- Johnny555 5y agoUnless, of course, Zeta has almost complete evasion to natural immunity too. Then you've intentionally exposed yourself to Delta for no reason. I'll stick with my strategy of getting the vaccination (including a booster when eligible), and taking reasonable precautions against exposure.
- randomopining 5y agoIf it comes from the lineage of the prevalent strain... there's no way that it would not have cross-immunity after 6 months.