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A non-lethal, highly contagious version of the virus is a sort of natural vaccine. I wouldn't try to spread it, but I could see people trying to catch it. I've had Covid (maybe twice) and that was quite enough for me.

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Doubling every 1.2 days, but “Only a single patient on oxygen was fully vaccinated but the reason for the oxygen was Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease”.

Not with immune evasion. Then you’re only protected from what you had.

Immunity or evasion thereof is never 100%. Natural immunity from prior infection with another variant is certain to provide at least some protection against Omicron but it may be limited.

Hopefully. Those with prior immunity to other coronaviruses actually did worse. The superantigen in SARS-Cov-2 activates the T cells for those viruses. They don’t protect and instead attack the body.

Odd, I’ve had it 4 or 5 times maybe and only the first was like the real flu. But the long COVID is an annoyance. I did get the vaxxx do maybe that’s why the later rounds were so mild.

Would you share the general lifestyle you’ve lived where you’ve been exposed and taken even mildly ill from covid four or five times?

For example, unmasked attendance to large sporting events, etc?

Are masks supposed to protect you, or protect others from you?

All masks are for protecting others from your virus.

Microfiber N95 is used for making masks that protect you IF is used properly ( real material, disposable, snug fit)

As I understand it as well. Catching the virus is more likely from touching surfaces coated with the virus then touching one's face, or something similar.

Interesting (though not surprising) that my question above has been downvoted. This is a touchy topic where political alignment sometimes supersedes even the will to reason.

> Catching the virus is more likely from touching surfaces coated

No. Fomite transmission is extremely unlikely.

Most likely, child-having

Do you have any evidence for having children leading to greater likelihood of catching Covid?

Apparently there was even a small protective effect from children in the household, though this went away after schools reopened. One of the hypotheses in this paper is cross-immunity with other circulating coronaviruses:

https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/early/2021/03/17/ar...

Based on this, I will continue my practice of licking subway handrails instead of religiously “sanitizing” everything like the person preparing to sit next to me just did.

More specifically, having kids in preschool guarantees exposure to every respiratory virus going around.

How does one catch it that many times? Are you in the health care space?

Genuinely curious.

Your immunity is not effective enough (sorry, blame you, your ancestors or your vaccine manufacturer ) or you were infected by a variant with enough differences in its antigens that it counts as a different virus.

>But the long COVID is an annoyance.

What exactly do you mean by that? Were you left with some permanent symptoms?

If this is true, you are a bit of a “miracle of nature”. Catching it twice is highly unlikely. You’ve had it so many times you can’t remember if it was 4 or 5.

Did you get tests to confirm that all of those cases were covid?

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