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Originally Posted by Excargodog
Best thing you can do to protect others - if you are young and healthy - is to casually acquire the coronavirus out in the community. No, don’t get a megadose like the E.R. doctors and ICU personnel are doing, just a community acquired low dose infection so your immune system has the advantage fighting the virus. Then go home and take Tylenol until you are over it. Because for young people without preexisting conditions this is no worse than the flu.
There, you are now an immune - at least temporarily - and are contributing to the herd immunity that will inevitably interrupt the transmission of this coronavirus. Like 25% of the people in NYC today.
And if it comes back next year, you’ll already be at least partially immune, so you’ll be even safer and AGAIN contributing to stopping the spread of this organism to the elderly and otherwise compromised people who do have serious risk from it.
There's so much to unpack with this man. I've spent a lot of time here hanging out at home getting over the virus on these forums with more time to kill than I know what to do with. I'm 28. I have no pre-existing conditions at all. I used to run 3+ times a week at a minimum of 5k each time. I workout probably 5 times a week. I got the virus and got my butt kicked by the virus. I ended up in the hospital having a hard time breathing man. To make a blanket statement that if you're young this won't affect you just isn't true. Somehow I developed pneumonia from it which was the root of a lot of my problems. I stayed at home on my days off and never left hotels on my overnights for the month leading up to me getting sick. Getting a big dose like some have said in my eyes is completely at random. Maybe my body sucks at fighting infections, however I'm rarely sick with anything worse than a common cold during the change of the seasons.
In regards to being immune I dont even think that is true. I'm pretty much recovered from it now, but it took about a month for me to be back to semi-normal. I recently got called by the state and city health department along with my primary doctor when I was in the hospital who is an epidemiologist who all said that there is potential I catch the virus again. There are a lot of factors that play into this obviously, but to say I'm immune for the time being just isn't true, yet. Hopefully with more studies this proves true because that absolutely sucked and I don't want to do all that again. Doesn't herd immunity take like 70% of the population to recover before that happens? Right now we're at like less than 2% of the total US population has been infected.
After going through that *******, to hear someone on here say they should catch the virus is just ridiculous. I wouldn't wish what I went through on anyone. It sucked. Period. It was way worse than the flu, which I had back in my pre-teens. The pain and inability to breathe isn't normal and isn't 'just the flu.' The constant aches/pain which were worse than any of my bone breaks ranging from shoulder, hand, fingers, shoulder, back, ribs, nose, or knee. I've never been in so much agony trying to sleep all night only to be tossing and turning for quite literally days on end not sleeping. It's no wonder I lost almost 20 LBs in 16ish days. Recommending someone go through that just because they are young and healthy, like I was, just makes you look incredibly ill-informed.
05-22-2024
