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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould this be a possible, highly dangerous, COVID-19 situation facing us in the future?
Sweden Says Covid Immunity Can Last 6 Months After InfectionBut here's the part that scares me:
I fear this may be too complicated or require non-existent empathy from many of those declared immune, who may run around maskless, not maintaining distancing, feeling secure that life for them is now "normal."
"I don't need to wear a mask, I'm immune!"
Runningdawg
(4,527 posts)Once you have it, you always have it. You can go into "remission" where you feel fine, maybe even test negative, but unlike other conditions where this is possible, this one is always contagious. Not sure how this would be handled, but I think I can say with some degree of certainty, this virus has changed and will continue to change life as we know it.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Solomon
(12,319 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Runningdawg
(4,527 posts)I've only read the first book, never seen the series The Handmaid's Tale. But in that book, infertility was caused by an unnamed virus of which we are told few details. Atwood may turn out to be a more reliable soothsayer than Orwell.
obamanut2012
(26,165 posts)Hugin
(33,222 posts)I thought that's how it works... Still pushing the bogus "Herd Immunity" hogwash there.
I'll be viewing the whole Nobel Prize thing through jaundiced eyes.
Phoenix61
(17,023 posts)to the immune response. T-cells and other cells play a role.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)Hugin
(33,222 posts)As an example, research indicates that the reason 90% of the indigenous Americans died of disease within a few decades after the so-called first contact is because pandemics often occur in waves of different diseases.
The first highly transmissible/low mortality disease passes through the herd (in this case it's HUMAN BEINGS we're talking about). While the herd is still weakened and recovering from this first wave, a second less transmissible/high mortality disease passes through which is really responsible for most of the fatalities. Usually, through pneumonia.
In the case of the Americas there is evidence there were three waves of disease over the 40 years subsequent to first contact. One of those diseases is thought to have originated in the Americas.
To view a pandemic as a singular event and not as part of a system is a grave mistake.
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)all over the map. For me, I am always going to wear an effective mask when out and about. There are so many truths and half-info flying around it's hard for me to determine hard core factual info. I go by Dr. Fauci.
yonder
(9,683 posts)I'd expect in 10 years we will know so much more. We need to keep doing the things we know (or suspect) will help until we can get our arms around it.