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The lack of sterilizing immunity. You can not expect your immune system to mount a permanent immediate defense against coronaviruses. Once everybody has encoun
by incrudible 5y ago
The lack of sterilizing immunity. You can not expect your immune system to mount a permanent immediate defense against coronaviruses.
Once everybody has encountered SARS2 at least once, it may become as harmless as the other endemic coronaviruses. That is to say, not entirely harmless, but nothing to lose sleep over.
It will never go away. How we deal with that is up to us.
- scotty79 5y agoPeople get sick with covid multiple times. Our immune systems are just naturally not good enough to deal with this virus. Covid will stop being a concern only after safe and incredibly efficient antiviral drug is developed, which might take decades.
- incrudible 5y agoYou can get reinfected with all sorts of respiratory viruses. Like I said, nothing to lose sleep over. Antivirals have a very limited window of opportunity. Nothing will make our concerns disappear. At some point, we need to move on.
- scotty79 5y agoI don't think we can move on because we haven't adjusted our health services to way larger number of sick and dying people every flu season.
- Stranger43 5y agoWe might have to, there is no guarantee that mRNA vaccines or lockdowns will ever stop covid to to point where no one ever gets hospitalized with covid. This is the inconvenient truth that absolutely nobody in the establishment is even remotely willing to even consider and a big part of the debate that is being replaced with an accusation contest. What do we do when the vaccination program only works as promised by the scientists developing it, and not as hoped for by the politicians ordering it?
- incrudible 5y agoThis season isn't finished yet, but we are seeing far fewer people sick and dying than last year. This trend is bound to continue, even if vaccines fail, if for no other reasons than the herd getting thinned out, cynically speaking.