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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by corty on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:59AM (#27004314)
It doesn't only react faster, it will react differently. Up to a reaction called "sepsis" that can kill you even without the virus doing anything anymore. Research points to most covid complications being such (there are lots more, the immune system is the worst kind of spaghetti code you can imagine) massive immune reactions gone haywire.

I'm not saying you are right or wrong. I'm saying that immune reactions aren't linear, straightforward, harmless or predictable. And that "more virus" usually isn't better.

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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by berkes on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:46AM (#27004538)
As a type1 diabetic, I love the 'spagetticode' reference. Our biology is amazingly complex. And in a somewhat constant broken state. My immune system decided that crucial pieces of my own body, are dangerous invaders, and it then decided to attack it. The attack is ongoing, and successful: a crucial subroutine of me is being destroyed faster than another part of me can rewrite it.
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