It's helpful to know what the complications are, because not only can people better understand the potential source of issues, it helps direct research & attention to where it's needed for treatment.
For all you know, you could have faced the exact same risk from myriad other viruses every year of your life before 2020; we simply never looked.
Regardless, you're going to get Covid. It is inevitable. It isn't going away. You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. The only truly tragic difference is how many years of your life you might give up trying to hide from it in the meantime.
You know you're full of sh*t when you still treat covid as a one-time infection when it's perfectly clear that it will reinfect you at best on a biyearly basis.
You can't do anything about it. You have a choice: you can lock yourself indoors, keep your face hidden, and live in perpetual anxiety -- in a futile attempt to stave off the inevitable -- based on questionable research. Alternatively, you can accept that life comes with some level of risk.
What you can't do, no matter how much you hide and curse at others, is avoid a respiratory virus.
> You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker.
that you are better off getting infected sooner rather than later and that there is only negative value to be had in postponing infection.
>What you can't do, no matter how much you hide and curse at others, is avoid a respiratory virus.
You may want to keep that sentiment for when a 30+% IFR respiratory virus like MERS causes a pandemic which, given the law of large numbers, will absolutely happen. Then, the attitude "you can do nothing" leads to only one thing - total civilizational collapse. (BTW, measles and rubella are both respiratory viruses that I have avoided and will continue to avoid but thanks for again proving the point that you have no idea what you are talking about.)
But looking at your submission history, I don't intend to lose any more time with the definition of covidiotism.
Maybe you should start by learning about cumulative probability and hence why n/2 infections carry less risk than n infections.
I don't need to show any work since covid infection AND reinfection has already been proven beyond any doubt to have non-zero risk of adverse effects on those that don't die from the infection. So either provide proof that covid reinfection carries 0 risk of permanent sequelae or stop wasting my time with the ridiculous claim that reducing the number of times someone is getting reinfected has no health benefit.
>a repeated event that carries non-zero probability for an adverse effect increases the cumulative probability of said adverse effect when it recurs.
is true by logical necessity. It doesn't need peer-review citation because is it's a synthetic apriori proposition (and also straight out of Probability 101, which unsurprisingly you haven't attended/understood), it's not an empirical claim depending on data.
I would say "learn to read with comprehension" but I fear it's not possible.
>posting medical misinformation
Very rich coming from a person literally reposting conspiracy talking points off from antivax twitter.
You are making things up without scientific basis.
you need to provide some evidence instead of endlessly misusing some heuristic, or principle like Occam's Razor.
He also misapplies principles like Occam's Razor, in Latin ""Numquam ponenda est pluritas sine necessitate" (Multiples should not be posited without necessity) and cumulative probabilities, despite not knowing the science on infection seropositivity, and having a situation that literally demands multiples.
In a complex situation where there are multiple causes, and multiple effects simultaneously due to multiple agents taking action, he refuses to provide evidence and then blames it all on covid deaths, even when the deaths are happening among working age individuals which by their very nature, are less likely to have multiple comorbidities or the advanced age which are more likely to be associated with Covid fatalities.
He does not accept that the governors that sequestered covid patients in nursing homes with highly vulnerable residents have any culpability for the wildfire infections that killed many of our most vulnerable. Nope, he brushes all that away too.
Thats not how vaccines work. They don't protect you from getting it, they protect you IF you get it!
Is it your conservative lifestyle? I haven't been taking any precautions and i haven't had covid yet either.
Here comes the straw man.
Secondly, the original comment was likely talking about doing their best* to avoid infection. Doing one’s best but failing is an acceptable outcome. Even if one fails, being infected once is better than being infected twice. In general, for covid, being infected as few times as possible is a good thing and a worthwhile goal.
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*For some people, doing their best might even include doing some relatively unsafe activities on a whim occasionally. Being so doesn’t make them hypocrites.
Also, did you read the comment you’re replying to? I repeat its point: Failing once is better than failing twice. Failing twice better than failing thrice. And so on.
https://www.verywellmind.com/diagnosing-a-specific-phobia-26...
> There's no point in trying when failure is inevitable.
I didn't ask that you eliminate all human contact. I called you out for telling other people that trying to avoid it is futile and for discouraging others from doing so.
In any case, one can still do their best to avoid covid, without necessarily avoiding human contact. Avoiding all human contact is just your straw man, it seems.
> a minor respiratory virus with a >99% survival rate
It's not the acute phase that matters. I (and most people) don't care about the acute phase. So your patronizing about phobias was not only unnecessary but also widely off the mark.
Covid isn't just a respiratory illness, like the common cold, that ends with a 'full' recovery after the acute phase. The post-acute phase* incidence and morbidity is on another level of magnitude. Covid presents as a respiratory illness in its acute phase. In its post-acute phase, covid is vascular and neurological. Some physicians consider it airborne thrombotic vasculitis, since it causes clotting and damage to multiple organ systems after initial infection.
For many, post-covid disorders are typically characterized by serious issues such as brain damage--or "brain fog," to be cutesy; postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS); post-exertional malaise (PEM); and myalgic encephalomyelitis-like chronic fatigue--or "fatigue," to be dismissive. So much so that 1/3 of 10 MM job unfilled job vacancies in the US are estimated to be due to long covid absences.
*Many other viral illnesses, e.g., dengue virus, HIV, EBV, present post-acute phase issues, so this isn't unique or surprising.
Edit: I also realize that I've been exceptionally lucky in where I live. Tokyoites have been taking the illness seriously until now. The signs of fatigue are there, so not sure if that'll continue, but at least I've managed to earn some time; the later to catch the disease, the better!
It’s not nihilistic. It’s realistic. The virus is no longer “novel”. And its’ only danger was its novelty. We are vaccinated now. Life can resume. Unless you want to spend your life also worrying about polio, measels, HPV, and whatever else we’ve beaten and learned to live with.
> Vaccinated people are not protected against catching and spreading the disease, and they're not protected from long COVID or even heart issues like this paper shows. […]
has been downvoted/flagged. This site has really gone downhill over the last decade. Wishful, uninformed thinking, that goes against the reality of covid & long covid described in the quoted portion.
We are also well on our way to stop living with HPV - but of course antivaxxers there are also sabotaging.