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[quote=Anonymous]I take COVID very seriously. On a mask break right now because I got COVID for the first time in November and I am taking advantage of having some short term immunity to clear up my face (the N95s and KN95s, no matter what brands I try, give me contact dermatitis so hoping a few weeks break will heal it, otherwise i depend on a steroid cream which I'm not willing to use long term).

I guess my question is, what is the end game. I too don't want recurrent infections but kind of feel fatalistic about it. I got it, despite not doing indoor dining, avoiding crowded places I didn't have to go to (like concerts, etc.) and masking with high quality masks if I went indoors, even just to grab mobile order starbucks. I think my teen brought it home, though she never tested positive. But I'm not willing to ban her from future homecoming dances, friends' houses etc.  She has been good about masking in school but it's hard with peer pressure so this year we didn't push it and she doesn't mask every day/all day (and obviously eats lunch unmasked). she's very social, and even if we ban indoor dining, she is still going to friends houses etc. and we aren't willing to cut that off.

So it seems inevitable we'll get it again in the coming years. I think with boosters and common sense masking we can stave it off but I can't pretend that in the next 10 years I won't get COVID 1-2 more times. I guess for me it's just about harm reduction. Maybe I'll get 2-3 x vs. 6x and that will be better. I don't know.

I don't go on social media and say the sky is falling. I have felt better about recent studies showing long COVID is probably closer to 5% in vaxed people and most people's symptoms resolve within 3-6 months, with very few having symptoms at the year mark. It also seems like recurrent infections could be LESS dangerous for some populations - the Nature study that went viral was grossly misinterpreted by the media, it showed that if in older males (VA) who had COVID bad enough for it to be documented by the health system and then got it again bad enough to be documented, had worse outcomes, but that we shouldn't extrapolate that to the general population and some experts think that for many people, getting infected offers protective benefits for next time. [/quote]

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