No change in coivd cases and deaths after spring break and no masks wtf

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Anonymous wrote:She is an immunologist and has some medical training with virology and occasionally will do research with them virologists.
Her being called a doctor carries because she is an MD, your supposed PhD is not synonymous with being called a doctor. Otherwise, lawyers could claim to be doctors as well.
Netter luck next time.

Your skills in grammar, spelling, and logical argument make me question whether you even understand what your neighbor was saying and can accurately convey it.

Yes, pressing the wrong key next to the letter intended is a measure of one’s grammar. You got me.

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https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/dashboard/

"Been tracking 4 cases and higher at schools. Normally the list is only 10 to 20 schools long.

MCPS data 4/19/22 reported 812 new cases in the past 10 days and 313 active quarantines. At this time, 41% of MCPS schools (86 out of 209) schools have 4 or more infections and 17 have 10 or more infections in the past 10 days. (Note that last week and this Monday was Spring break, so the last 10 days is really just yesterday and today?)"

As of 5:49 AM, 4/22, that number is slowly increasing. 1035 reported cases.

I know multiple people with covid right now.

And not a single peep about virtual. We've finally achieved end game. Feels great to be in this spot.

Mcps was clear all year that they would be ignoring Covid. We have not come close to the end game.

You do you. From my POV, it's finally over.

It’s far from over.

For you I suppose. For me, it's been over for quite a while, and it's great seeing other parts of society (schools, planes, etc.) getting on board with that.

So you don't care at all if large numbers of people become sick at the same time?

NP. Define "sick". Relatively few people are getting hospitalized these days.

That's the point. The CDC has chosen to focus on hospitalizations, ignoring the fact that increases in cases have ripple effects everywhere through worker absences, student absences, and continued spread throughout the community. I have a teen sick with COVID right now. He is missing an entire week of school, assuming that he feels better next week, which at this point, we don't know, because he's pretty sick. He will miss work all weekend, and all of us in the house run the risk of testing positive and missing more school and our work extending through next week.

You can pretend that cases don't matter, but each case disrupts more than just the life of the person infected.

Look, the point is that you cannot really "prevent" cases in the long run, you can only delay them. That's important if hospitals are getting overwhelmed ("flatten the curve"), but not otherwise. With the virus not going away, you will have to face the disruption of an infection eventually. The CDC has recognized this reality and therefore adjusted their metrics. I'm not sure why you think you know better than the CDC what's important.

This is just flat out wrong. Of COURSE we can prevent cases. Not all of them, no, but some of them, perhaps even most of them, absolutely. And even if cases stay below hospital capacity, it still is important to prevent as many as possible. Every infection with COVID, even the mild ones, increases your risk of major systemic damage from long COVID - brain damage, heart damage, lung damage, etc. I would like to avoid it if at all possible, and certainly want to limit the number of times my family and I are exposed to that risk.

Incremental reductions (or increases) in risk absolutely matter and can have a large ripple effect (exponential spread, anyone?). It's not black and white; our choices are not only the one extreme of total lockdown vs. the other extreme of no precautions/let 'er rip.

"Learning to live with COVID" doesn't mean "back to 2019". We actually have to do the LEARNING part.

But what tangible things are you proposing? You going to shut down our economy? Want us to be Shanghai?

Lock people in their apartments, starve them, take their babies away, and beat their pets to death. That's the dream state for some posters here.

Why are you not capable of an intelligent, nuanced conversation about this? Your ridiculous, exaggerated comments make you look like you can’t put forth any intelligent arguments. When challenged you just resort to these ridiculous statements. I feel like I’m watching Tucker Carlson.

There are posters here that believe leaving your house is irresponsible and not "decent". So they essentially and indirectly advocate for this type of extremism.

None one said that anywhere. Your straw man arguments are weak.

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Anonymous wrote:She is an immunologist and has some medical training with virology and occasionally will do research with them virologists.
Her being called a doctor carries because she is an MD, your supposed PhD is not synonymous with being called a doctor. Otherwise, lawyers could claim to be doctors as well.
Netter luck next time.

Lawyers could claim to be doctors? What are you even talking about?

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

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.

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.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

NP. Virologists have been behind all sorts of non-evidence based recommendations during this pandemic, so I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. Now if she was an immunologist, I'd be more interested, and I would be quite surprised if they thought eliminating all exposures to respiratory viruses for the rest of a young adult's life was a good idea.

Classic. “I have no medical degree or advanced degree, so I’m just going to ignore someone WAY more intelligent than me because I don’t like what they say.” The hubris. Truly Darwinism.

Actually, I do have a PhD, and I also said I’d be interested in the opinion of an immunologist on this issue, but apparently you have trouble with reading comprehension.

You don’t have a relevant PhD so I really don’t care what you think.

My spouse has a PhD in math, so having a PhD in something does not correlate to having medical knowledge.
He has also and many agree that claiming to be a doctor is synonymous with having a medical degree. It carries for a medical doctor,
not for a PhD, otherwise, we would be calling attorneys doctors, too.
Besides that no one respectable with a PhD brags about it and certainly not on here.

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Anonymous wrote:She is an immunologist and has some medical training with virology and occasionally will do research with them virologists.
Her being called a doctor carries because she is an MD, your supposed PhD is not synonymous with being called a doctor. Otherwise, lawyers could claim to be doctors as well.
Netter luck next time.

Lawyers could claim to be doctors? What are you even talking about?

Just cemented how stupid you are.

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Still no answer on what type of fake PhD. Must be looking one up.

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Anonymous wrote:She is an immunologist and has some medical training with virology and occasionally will do research with them virologists.
Her being called a doctor carries because she is an MD, your supposed PhD is not synonymous with being called a doctor. Otherwise, lawyers could claim to be doctors as well.
Netter luck next time.

Lawyers could claim to be doctors? What are you even talking about?

DP here but surely everyone knows that a J.D. (law degree) stands for Juris Doctor and is the terminal degree in that field.

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Anonymous wrote:She is an immunologist and has some medical training with virology and occasionally will do research with them virologists.
Her being called a doctor carries because she is an MD, your supposed PhD is not synonymous with being called a doctor. Otherwise, lawyers could claim to be doctors as well.
Netter luck next time.

Lawyers could claim to be doctors? What are you even talking about?

DP here but surely everyone knows that a J.D. (law degree) stands for Juris Doctor and is the terminal degree in that field.

Historically they have never gone by doctor. PhD’s have. It was kind of a silly statement.

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The poster is attempting to lay claim with the comparison that a PhD holds up to the title of doctor the same as an MD holds the same title of doctor. They are far from similar and is why someone mentioned that when one is called a doctor it is synonymous of someone with a medical degree.
Assume, a poster meant that an attorney having a Juris Doctor may claim a “doctor” label if a PhD can do the same?

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

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.

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.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

NP. Virologists have been behind all sorts of non-evidence based recommendations during this pandemic, so I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. Now if she was an immunologist, I'd be more interested, and I would be quite surprised if they thought eliminating all exposures to respiratory viruses for the rest of a young adult's life was a good idea.

Classic. “I have no medical degree or advanced degree, so I’m just going to ignore someone WAY more intelligent than me because I don’t like what they say.” The hubris. Truly Darwinism.

Actually, I do have a PhD, and I also said I’d be interested in the opinion of an immunologist on this issue, but apparently you have trouble with reading comprehension.

So not a medical doctor. Lol!

You realize your virologist neighbor probably has a PhD, not an MD, right? Stupid question. Of course you didn’t know that.

I’m going to ask here right now.

DP. Hey, PP with the virologist neighbor, how come you never came back to confirm that her immunologist husband really thought avoiding any exposures to any respiratory viruses for the rest of one’s life is not going to have any negative consequences? Because that is what the PPs with whom you are arguing have been questioning. Or was it another statement with which he “concurred”? If so, what was it?

Hey, my virologist neighbor is also an immunologist like her husband. Neither which you are not and definitely feeling inferior about.
You never said what kind of doctor you were when asked.

I never said I was a doctor, you are talking to several people here. But why even bring up your neighbor’s credentials if you don’t tell us what they actually said on the subject we were discussing? You think just having an expert neighbor gives you superior standing on this thread?

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wait wait is someone actually arguing that PhD's aren't "doctors"?

Look, we get that PhDs are largely not MDs, but PhDs are doctors. PhDs were doctors before MDs got called doctors.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

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.

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.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

NP. Virologists have been behind all sorts of non-evidence based recommendations during this pandemic, so I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. Now if she was an immunologist, I'd be more interested, and I would be quite surprised if they thought eliminating all exposures to respiratory viruses for the rest of a young adult's life was a good idea.

Classic. “I have no medical degree or advanced degree, so I’m just going to ignore someone WAY more intelligent than me because I don’t like what they say.” The hubris. Truly Darwinism.

Actually, I do have a PhD, and I also said I’d be interested in the opinion of an immunologist on this issue, but apparently you have trouble with reading comprehension.

You don’t have a relevant PhD so I really don’t care what you think.

My spouse has a PhD in math, so having a PhD in something does not correlate to having medical knowledge.
He has also and many agree that claiming to be a doctor is synonymous with having a medical degree. It carries for a medical doctor,
not for a PhD, otherwise, we would be calling attorneys doctors, too.
Besides that no one respectable with a PhD brags about it and certainly not on here.

Nobody was bragging about their PhD, and a lot of the subsequent comments were not mine. I mentioned it in response to a comment that said I wasn’t qualified to question anything a virologist said because I didn’t have an advanced degree. But you are right, I shouldn’t even have bothered to respond to someone who uses credentialism against anonymous posters to win an argument that they themselves clearly have nothing of value to contribute to.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

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.

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.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

NP. Virologists have been behind all sorts of non-evidence based recommendations during this pandemic, so I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. Now if she was an immunologist, I'd be more interested, and I would be quite surprised if they thought eliminating all exposures to respiratory viruses for the rest of a young adult's life was a good idea.

Classic. “I have no medical degree or advanced degree, so I’m just going to ignore someone WAY more intelligent than me because I don’t like what they say.” The hubris. Truly Darwinism.

Actually, I do have a PhD, and I also said I’d be interested in the opinion of an immunologist on this issue, but apparently you have trouble with reading comprehension.

You don’t have a relevant PhD so I really don’t care what you think.

My spouse has a PhD in math, so having a PhD in something does not correlate to having medical knowledge.
He has also and many agree that claiming to be a doctor is synonymous with having a medical degree. It carries for a medical doctor,
not for a PhD, otherwise, we would be calling attorneys doctors, too.
Besides that no one respectable with a PhD brags about it and certainly not on here.

Well, one thing is clear from your comments: you are neither an MD or a PhD.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

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.

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.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

NP. Virologists have been behind all sorts of non-evidence based recommendations during this pandemic, so I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. Now if she was an immunologist, I'd be more interested, and I would be quite surprised if they thought eliminating all exposures to respiratory viruses for the rest of a young adult's life was a good idea.

Classic. “I have no medical degree or advanced degree, so I’m just going to ignore someone WAY more intelligent than me because I don’t like what they say.” The hubris. Truly Darwinism.

Actually, I do have a PhD, and I also said I’d be interested in the opinion of an immunologist on this issue, but apparently you have trouble with reading comprehension.

You don’t have a relevant PhD so I really don’t care what you think.

My spouse has a PhD in math, so having a PhD in something does not correlate to having medical knowledge.
He has also and many agree that claiming to be a doctor is synonymous with having a medical degree. It carries for a medical doctor,
not for a PhD, otherwise, we would be calling attorneys doctors, too.
Besides that no one respectable with a PhD brags about it and certainly not on here.

Well, one thing is clear from your comments: you are neither an MD or a PhD.

Much like yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

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.

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.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

NP. Virologists have been behind all sorts of non-evidence based recommendations during this pandemic, so I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. Now if she was an immunologist, I'd be more interested, and I would be quite surprised if they thought eliminating all exposures to respiratory viruses for the rest of a young adult's life was a good idea.

Classic. “I have no medical degree or advanced degree, so I’m just going to ignore someone WAY more intelligent than me because I don’t like what they say.” The hubris. Truly Darwinism.

Actually, I do have a PhD, and I also said I’d be interested in the opinion of an immunologist on this issue, but apparently you have trouble with reading comprehension.

You don’t have a relevant PhD so I really don’t care what you think.

My spouse has a PhD in math, so having a PhD in something does not correlate to having medical knowledge.
He has also and many agree that claiming to be a doctor is synonymous with having a medical degree. It carries for a medical doctor,
not for a PhD, otherwise, we would be calling attorneys doctors, too.
Besides that no one respectable with a PhD brags about it and certainly not on here.

Well, one thing is clear from your comments: you are neither an MD or a PhD.

Much like yourself.

Whatever makes you feel better. I can’t prove any credentials to you, but at least I can write coherent sentences.