Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by tke248 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @02:55PM
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Why not break her out I have an 85 year old grandma living with me an its fine...
Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by war1025 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @06:44PM
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She has moderate dementia, which means you can't really trust her to do reasonable things if left to her own devices.
Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by danellis on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @01:14AM
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> everyone that didn't die is now immune
How do they know?
Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by Izkata on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @02:05AM
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If they've recovered, they're immune. If you weren't immune, you couldn't recover - it's the same system.
The only question is how long-lasting it is, and so far the answer is "indefinite / a long time".
Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by danellis on Thursday December 31, 2020 @06:23AM
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Other people have caught it and recovered, but it was not known whether that gave them immunity. What's different here? In fact, some people have caught it twice, so you can obviously recover without gaining immunity.
Went home for Christmas and as part of it swung by the nursing home where my Grandma lives.
She is basically in actual prison for the past nine months. For a good part of it she was confined to her room. It appears that they've relaxed the restrictions after Coronavirus ripped through the place and everyone that didn't die is now immune. She is at least allowed to go sit in the lobby area now and talk with the other residents.
Nothing quite like watching a 98 year old woman break down in tears every time someone reminds her that she can't actually come outside and give us a hug or talk to us in person.