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There is documented cases where people in the middle ages would deliberately take small doses of poison to develop inmunity to poison itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
If people could deliberately infect yourself with a weak version of Covid19 , they would. Problem is strains are still somewhat poorly understood so its hard to understand who carries a tough strain vs weak one.
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There is documented cases where people in the middle ages would deliberately take small doses of poison to develop inmunity to poison itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
If people could deliberately infect yourself with a weak version of Covid19 , they would. Problem is strains are still somewhat poorly understood so its hard to understand who carries a tough strain vs weak one.