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So will natural infection.

Resistance to SARS-CoV1 has lasted more than a decade. Coronaviruses mutates far less dramatically than influenza does.

SARS-CoV1 didn't have a pool of 8 billion people to mutate in. It'll get less deadly as time goes by giving fuel to the 'it's just a flu' crowd, killing millions in the meantime and potentially mutating beyond the scope of currently attained immunity, god forbid.

There it’s just a flu crowd are the same people who call every little sniffle they get “the flu“. I’ve had the flu and I was out of it. I couldn’t even make it to the bathroom on my own.

the 'it's just the flu' crowd probably doesn't realize how many people actually die from flu complications, but then, i wouldn't expect them to, unfortunately. perception of freedom trumps science for them.

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