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The boosters do almost nothing about XBB.1.5 and the upcoming strains - this is evolution at play! You can't use the same strategy we've used for the flu - this
by nikolay 4y ago
The boosters do almost nothing about XBB.1.5 and the upcoming strains - this is evolution at play! You can't use the same strategy we've used for the flu - this virus mutates much faster as it infects a lot more people.
- threadweaver34 4y agoMy point was that we've reached the mid-term status quo. If you're still wearing a mask, you're going to be wearing it for a while.
- nikolay 4y agoI am fully aware of it and well used to it already - I've gone through hundreds of 3M and Moldex N95s already, I can properly put on and take off a face mask with a single hand in a second. I'm sure the first people who put on underwear were also ridiculed and others thought of them as crazies, but from modern day's perspective, they were the clever bunch. Face masks might be a novelty in the Western Hemisphere, but in the more populated other half of our planet, people have been wearing masks as less inconvenient than getting sick. People should learn about Hayflick limit before saying they can keep surviving a reinfection every couple of months - especially one, which exploits such a common receptor as ACE2!