The Coronavirus Is Here Forever

Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by ajsnigrutin on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:04PM (#28284375)

> There's good reason to suspect that long-term COVID will be on the order of influenza or the common cold -- common and mild for most patients.

In slovenia, by some estimates of our expert group, half the country got infected by covid (~1mio), 4450 died, almost half of them in old age/nursing homes, and out of all that, only 4 were under 35yo, only one (out of those 5) under 25, and we count every death within 28days of infection as a covid death (even suicide or a car crash).

For a large percentage of the population, it already is common and mild.

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by ds206 on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:04PM (#28284692)

This is why I'm unvaccinated... low risk

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by 0x500x79 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @04:22PM (#28306434)

This seems like first order thinking. What about the repercussions of the infection? Mutations? And what is the tradeoff with the vaccine? Is the vaccine "higher risk" with all of the other second order questions taken into account?

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by nintendo1889 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:33AM (#28314697)

The antibodies stay in your bone marrow forever. See jack kruse's Instagram posts.

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by c6401 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:04AM (#28455419)

Memory B-cells, not antibodies.

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