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Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime by lbeltrame on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:19AM (#27316428)
Can you provide some evidence that this happened now, or for earlier diseases?

Manaus in Brazil doesn't count, FTR. It never ever reached herd immunity: the data was a large overestimation.

Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime by camgunz on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:17PM (#27318724)
I think my evidence is that there are variants. Isn't the way variants work:

- A human gets infected

- The human becomes a virus factory

- While producing gazillions of viruses, mutations occur

- Mutations are variants

Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime by beagle3 on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:07PM (#27319278)
The most prolific by far variant factories are apparently immunocompromised individuals, including those vaccinated - which harbor infection for months and a weak immune system - which lets the virus optimize against weak humans, in the same way the traditional vaccines lets the immune system optimize against a weak virus.

(From memory, don’t have a link handy)

Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime by camgunz on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:34PM (#27319565)
Yeah I mean, we're (presumably) both doing some armchair virology, but I buy that if you're immunocompromised that you can't fight off the virus, and thus the virus succeeds in turning you into a virus factory until you die.

That said, I don't think that's an argument against non-immunocompromised people getting vaccinated. It's like me saying "don't touch the toaster if it were just on, you'll get burned" and you responding "yeah but ovens really burn you." OK well, be careful around both I guess.

Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime by kokx on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:15PM (#27322308)
It is a great argument that non-immunocompromised people should get vaccinated. If non-immunocompromised people are vaccinated, the probability that immunocompromised people get infected gets smaller, thus causing less variants.