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Anonymous wrote:Like, you would rather get it repeatedly even if it's going to take 20 years off your life? Because you don't want to mask? Even if it takes 40 years off your life? Even if it makes you have a heart attack in 2 years? Because you don't like masking THAT much?

It's a strange hill to die on, but okay.

If I thought masks would do what you seem to think they do, I’d mask too. But since they don’t…

DCUM is such a strange world. People here are in complete denial that a lot of transmission is inevitable. Not all of it, but most of it.

We all mask and we haven't gotten it yet as far as we can tell. And the kids at school who don't mask generally have gotten it. And my friends at work who stopped masking have gotten it, some are on round 3 by now. I may get it eventually, but I'm hoping not to get it 4 times in the next 4 years, and hopefully give my immunity system a break. DCUM is such a strange world, where shrugging is better than masking because infection can't be prevented, even though people who mask are preventing it, but I guess some people have just been fed the story that masks are awful and they won't question it.

Masks can stop infection and they can also decrease the dose you're exposed to even if you do get infected. That's a win-win from where I'm standing but for some weird reason some people see masks as an enemy rather than a tool.

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Anonymous wrote:Like, you would rather get it repeatedly even if it's going to take 20 years off your life? Because you don't want to mask? Even if it takes 40 years off your life? Even if it makes you have a heart attack in 2 years? Because you don't like masking THAT much?

It's a strange hill to die on, but okay.

If I thought masks would do what you seem to think they do, I’d mask too. But since they don’t…

DCUM is such a strange world. People here are in complete denial that a lot of transmission is inevitable. Not all of it, but most of it.

Anonymous wrote:Like, you would rather get it repeatedly even if it's going to take 20 years off your life? Because you don't want to mask? Even if it takes 40 years off your life? Even if it makes you have a heart attack in 2 years? Because you don't like masking THAT much?

It's a strange hill to die on, but okay.

If I thought thought those numbers were even remotely realistic, I would take action. There's no reason to believe that getting Covid-19 repeatedly is any worse than getting any other non-novel coronavirus repeatedly. We've lived with the other common coronaviruses for quite some time now. The only reason it was so dangerous in the first place is that we didn't have any existing immunity when it started.

Anonymous wrote:Like, you would rather get it repeatedly even if it's going to take 20 years off your life? Because you don't want to mask? Even if it takes 40 years off your life? Even if it makes you have a heart attack in 2 years? Because you don't like masking THAT much?

It's a strange hill to die on, but okay.

If I thought masks would do what you seem to think they do, I’d mask too. But since they don’t…

Like, you would rather get it repeatedly even if it's going to take 20 years off your life? Because you don't want to mask? Even if it takes 40 years off your life? Even if it makes you have a heart attack in 2 years? Because you don't like masking THAT much?

It's a strange hill to die on, but okay.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to know why everyone is getting so sick so often these past few months, this is why. Even mild cases of Covid cause immune system damage that shares some similarities to HIV (in that it destroys T cells) and may be permanent. Repeat infections increase the damage. People think because they feel fine after they recover, that Covid is nothing. But people felt fine after they were infected with HIV too, often for a couple of years. The damage is cumulative and takes some time to emerge. https://nationalpost.com/health/is-covid-prematurely-aging-our-immune-systems

Oh well, if true. Its here to stay along with all the other circulating viruses. Nothing to be done. Shrug.

This! Some of us would rather repeatedly get Covid then wear masks, avoid gatherings, etc., etc. indefinitely.

Some of us would rather mask than just shrug. I don't understand the shruggers! But whatever, you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to know why everyone is getting so sick so often these past few months, this is why. Even mild cases of Covid cause immune system damage that shares some similarities to HIV (in that it destroys T cells) and may be permanent. Repeat infections increase the damage. People think because they feel fine after they recover, that Covid is nothing. But people felt fine after they were infected with HIV too, often for a couple of years. The damage is cumulative and takes some time to emerge. https://nationalpost.com/health/is-covid-prematurely-aging-our-immune-systems

Oh well, if true. Its here to stay along with all the other circulating viruses. Nothing to be done. Shrug.

This! Some of us would rather repeatedly get Covid then wear masks, avoid gatherings, etc., etc. indefinitely.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t seen the HIV Covid comparison before. Definitely a new one.

What is it that you want people to do with us “information”? Freak out more to make you feel better?

A family member has been working on RNA solutions for HIV for decades, and the same tech has been used in the covid vaccines to combat covid. Serious similarities between the two.

Using the same tech to combat both viruses doesn’t necessarily mean the effects of the viruses are similar.

I'm not sure why this is something we should worry about. To the poster who stated that more knowledge is better, is it now? What is "knowledge" here? IMO, we carry on.

Vaccinated and boosted and neither me or my family have had Covid yet afaik.

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Anonymous wrote:The only people I know to have had multiple cases of COVID are those who are vaccinated and boosted. My friends and family that remain unvaccinated may have had COVID one time and are doing fine now. BTW, I am vaccinated and my children are too. I am somewhat regretting our decision to vaccinate but we had to for work and school.

Well here’s my anecdote. I have been vaccinated and boosted and have had Covid once (mild case over a year ago). I know several unvaccinated people who have had Covid twice and one vaccinated person who has had it twice.

At this point we have no idea how many times most people have had Covid because very few people are testing regularly. It would make sense that many known multiple cases are either very sick (had to test for medical care) or hyper vigilant vaccinated and boosted x2.

Anonymous wrote:The only people I know to have had multiple cases of COVID are those who are vaccinated and boosted. My friends and family that remain unvaccinated may have had COVID one time and are doing fine now. BTW, I am vaccinated and my children are too. I am somewhat regretting our decision to vaccinate but we had to for work and school.

Well here’s my anecdote. I have been vaccinated and boosted and have had Covid once (mild case over a year ago). I know several unvaccinated people who have had Covid twice and one vaccinated person who has had it twice.

Anonymous wrote:The only people I know to have had multiple cases of COVID are those who are vaccinated and boosted. My friends and family that remain unvaccinated may have had COVID one time and are doing fine now. BTW, I am vaccinated and my children are too. I am somewhat regretting our decision to vaccinate but we had to for work and school.

If more people had refused then it wouldn't have been mandated for work and school.

The only people I know to have had multiple cases of COVID are those who are vaccinated and boosted. My friends and family that remain unvaccinated may have had COVID one time and are doing fine now. BTW, I am vaccinated and my children are too. I am somewhat regretting our decision to vaccinate but we had to for work and school.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to know why everyone is getting so sick so often these past few months, this is why. Even mild cases of Covid cause immune system damage that shares some similarities to HIV (in that it destroys T cells) and may be permanent. Repeat infections increase the damage. People think because they feel fine after they recover, that Covid is nothing. But people felt fine after they were infected with HIV too, often for a couple of years. The damage is cumulative and takes some time to emerge. https://nationalpost.com/health/is-covid-prematurely-aging-our-immune-systems

Oh well, if true. Its here to stay along with all the other circulating viruses. Nothing to be done. Shrug.

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