Themis is for the entire country. This is not reflective of our highly vaccinated area. |
Actually, it's going really well. My allergies are better too. This is the healthiest I have been in years. |
You’re probably less healthy than you think. If you’re not being exposed to all kinds of germs on a daily basis, you’re immune system is going to forget how to work. Good luck with that. |
I meant after the pandemic is “over.” Like 5 years from now. Just bookmark this page to make it easier. Guaranteed you will NOT be wearing a mask daily. |
Because 1000+ people are dying of it every day? |
Bookmark this nonsense for when the data on excess deaths from "other causes" that turn out to be functions of COVID infection (or multiple COVID infections) really takes off. |
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There has been an increase in cases. If you don't mind becoming infected now, then the cases don't matter to you.
If you want to avoid becoming sick now, areas of Maryland like Montgomery County, are in the "High" transmission range under the old CDC metrics and most of the state is in the "Substantial" range. High is the highest level. Fortunately, the cases aren't overwhelming hospitals, which is what the new CDC metrics are concerned with. It tells you nothing about your chances of becoming infected. Your individual chances of becoming infected are much greater now than they were at the beginning of the month due to the levels of community transmission. If you want to reduce your chances of getting sick now, consider whether wearing a high-quality mask or scaling back indoor activities makes sense for you. While hospitals aren't overwhelmed, in Maryland, we have gone from having just 126 people hospitalized on April 1 to 170 hospitalized today. That's still very low, due to vaccines, boosters, and prior infection, but an increase nonetheless. Hopefully, this is a mini-surge that will peak soon. |
+1 Avoding every cold (or Covid) for years is going to come back to bite you by the time you are old and truly vulnerable to this coronavirus (and other viruses). |
My virologist neighbor laughed when I told her your claim that the immune system is going to forget how to work. You must know something she doesn’t. |
. Please post the science behind your immune system “forgetting to work.” And I mean peer reviewed studies, MDs, and PhDs with relevant degrees. Not your chiropractor or Facebook friends. |
What an immature comment, just because you want it to be true. Not over. By far. It is what it is. Also long Covid, yeah hopefully someone you know can convince you it is real. |
DP. Well, there was a study in 2020 in Britain that found that parents of young children were less likely to get severely ill from Covid, and they hypothesized that it was due to their frequent, recent exposures to other coronaviruses. The same theory has been voiced by experts regarding chidden's relative immunity from severe Covid. So obviously the immune system doesn't "forget" how to work in general, but you do build immunity to specific viruses and families of viruses by exposure, and you need to keep it up since it doesn't last forever,, whether it's from infection or vaccines. |
https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/05/all-social-distancing-weakening-our-immune-systems Yeah, constantly exposing adult immune system to pathogens is not that productive. |
Almost exclusively unvaccinated. |
DP. This article is from May 2020. It absolutely makes sense that a few months, or even a couple of years, of shielding yourself from all respiratory viruses is not going to be a problem for an adult immune system. Whether this is true for someone who continued to do this for many years is another question, and I'm not sure we even have data to answer it. It certainly makes sense to assume that repeated exposures to respiratory viruses would strengthen someone's defenses to it, and that just like with vaccines, the protection once acquired wears off unless you are either re-exposed or re-vaccinated. |