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This is the thing that drives me the most nuts about many policy makers: they ignored natural immunity. They ignored that cloth masks (and likely surgical) woul
by kyrra 5y ago
This is the thing that drives me the most nuts about many policy makers: they ignored natural immunity. They ignored that cloth masks (and likely surgical) would do nothing against an aerosol born disease. They ignored the impact of lockdown of society to everyone. The US masking 2 year old kids when the rest of the world masked starting at 6 year old or older.
EDIT: just to add: from what we can see, vaccines help cut down on adverse outcomes due to a covid infection, which is why I'm still pro-vaccine. But many other policies out there are just nonsense.
- aardvarkr 5y agoFYI Natural immunity provides a fraction of the immune response that being vaccinated does. People were getting reinfected with Covid after six months during the initial wave before any mutations cropped up.
- gehwartzen 5y agoDo you have any studies which you can point to that actually that demonstrate that "natural immunity provides a fraction of the immune response that being vaccinated does"? From what I can tell even the CDCs latest online review, as of Oct 2021, doesn't have any evidence that one is better than the other in terms of antibodi titers [1] In fact the most recent CDC published studies, from this year, have shown naturally induced immunity to be superior to vaccine induced immunity in terms of both illness and death [2] [1]https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/vaccine-induced-immunity.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br... [2]https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm7104e1_w https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...