• ryepunk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    If your definition of immunity is “doesn’t kill you”, sure it doesn’t kill you. Usually.

    But if you take the typical idea of immunity as “immune to this disease once you’ve had it” then catching covid does not make you immune at all. With some people catching it within 3 months or less of a previous infection. And given the rising evidence we’ve seen of how long covid occurs at startlingly higher rates from subsequent reinfections, it’s laughable that you would even consider the notion of immunity to covid at all. It has proven to move faster than we can adapt to it naturally or with science.

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      3 months ago

      But if you take the typical idea of immunity as “immune to this disease once you’ve had it” then catching covid does not make you immune at all. With some people catching it within 3 months or less of a previous infection

      It’s literally the same as with the common cold or with the flu. I’m not claiming that reinfections can’t have bad consequences, I’m claiming reinfections are less common if you’ve been infected recently, which is kinda the definition of immunity (reduced likelihood of being infected after overcoming a previous infection). “Completely immune to the disease once you had it” works for some diseases like measles, but it doesn’t for others like flu or common cold, or COVID, that doesn’t mean there isn’t an immunity boost after infection.

      • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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        It’s literally the same as with the common cold or with the flu

        no it isn’t please stop concern trolling with technical truths

        I support wearing facemasks when symptoms appear

        it spreads asymptomatically, this does nothing and is libshit

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          and is libshit

          Marx, 1850: “lol, saying that wearing facemasks is useful is lib shit. Git dunk’d”

          no it isn’t

          technical truths

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