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You might be naturally immune, or you got it and had very mild symptoms and didn't notice.Originally Posted by GeeWizDriver
I have seen some estimates as high as 20% of the population may be naturally immune to Covid. My pathologist friend thinks the number may be higher (he specialized in infectious disease by the way). My personal physician thinks there is a possibility I am naturally immune because I spent weeks in very close, prolonged, personal contact with my wife while she went through a serious, antibody confirmed case of Covid and yet I did not contract it.
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You misquoted me. I said "JUST ABOUT guaranteed", nothing absolute about that at all.Originally Posted by GeeWizDriver
So, you are NOT “guaranteed” to get Covid if you don’t get vaccinated. Yet another unfortunate absolute from the resident expert.
But you're right, at least a few people always seem to have some natural genetic or acquired protection (including HIV). But that's probably pretty rare. And how do you know if you hold the golden ticket?
Most people who might be immune to covid more likely got exposed to another coronavirus and therefore have a similar immune response going, or had asymptomatic covid although I think when it all comes out in the wash "asymptomatic covid" will be relatively rare despite all of the hysteria.
So it would be better to say that if there's some long-term auto-immune issue you're at risk of that from the vaccine, from covid, or from whatever immune response you got that protects you from covid. Those are not identical mechanisms but they have to be pretty similar.