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People like you who had a mild case may benefit most from the vaccine, because you may be the least likely to have developed long-lasting antibodies.

You've seen what the virus can do. Why chance it?

I'm sorry to hear about your wife. I hope she gets better.

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/574284-natural-covid-...

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I’m surprised you read long haul covid as a mild case. I know someone with natural immunity that did an anti body test out of curiosity and their response was 10x those of typical vaccinated people after a similar half a year exposure. He will get fired if he doesn’t get the vaccine.

A) my case was not mild

B) you may have missed the last line of my comment

C) trying to understand how this extremely contagious virus managed to not infect me while my wife and I shared bathrooms, beds, and car rides together. My best assumption is that I still carry immunity

Yeah, sorry, I misunderstood.

Do you think it's impossible that the virus actually did infect you the second time, just asymptomatically?

Perhaps but that didn’t stop me from isolating. Fwiw, my wife may have been asymptomatic in the past and she figured she was safe to interact in public.

The moral of this story is that vaxxed or not this virus can still spread, so you can only be safe about yourself. Wear a mask, wash your hands.

Good luck!

>trying to understand how this extremely contagious virus managed to not infect me while my wife and I shared bathrooms, beds, and car rides together

There are a lot of things people don't understand, that's why expertise is more valuable than intuition, heuristics, and feels.

Wooosh

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