Why is everyone sick RN? Get your shots! If you got your shots, and still caught some shit, I'm sorry to hear that and wish you are not sick for long. It's only November and it seems like there's a lot of shit going around. #MaskUp
@Ellico2020bis Duh. We were all locked away for how long? Our immune systems were not being constantly taxed.
So guess what? A tiny thing is a BIG thing to our systems. Flu shots are based on a strain best-guess. It's like predicting weather - not 100% accurate. A shot isn't a cure-all. Just a way to help.
@Rheannon People are being sick for multiple weeks, getting secondary infections, it seems (anecdotal-- don't take me for an expert or person with a dataset).
@Ellico2020bis My own kids are included. They did too - exactly as you described, but this was predicted as a risk to the near global-scale stay-at-home mandate.
@Ellico2020bis @Rheannon SAH = stay-at-home.
"Immunity debt" is this bizarre idea that exposing yourself to dangerous pathogens protects you against future instances of that pathogen.
It was spread loud and wide for C19 which now it's being found that C19 trashes your T cells, B cells, (which is why "everyone's so sick" lately) causes body-wide vascular problems (increased strokes and heart issues) and contributes to Alzheimer's like illness.
It's bogus.
@artisanrox @Rheannon C19 trashes all kinds of stuff, I agree. I am talking about the kind of shit the arises in one's own household. A little salmonella (not that I faciliate it), which is a bacterium, not a virus, probably guards against a lot of salmonella. Babies get sick from all kinds of shit because it's new to them. I had Covid early on (3/2020) but my T-cells seem still to work. Covid is nasty. I may die from a stroke tonight because of it. But immunity is a thing.
@Ellico2020bis @Rheannon I think I'd rather work on not introducing salmonella go my immune system to negin with lol but at least it doesn't teash your vascular system.
@artisanrox @Rheannon I haven't been sick for years (work from home, when I rode public transportation, I was sick once a year). I'm "old" now. I don't know for which pathogens I have immunity, but it must be a fuckton of them.
@artisanrox @Rheannon
* other than apparent-Covid in March 2020, which had me one step from seeking medical attention, then suddenly broke
@artisanrox While I've never heard of the term, "Immunity debt", I wonder if you might find the link below to be an interesting read.
How vaccines work... https://www.dmu.edu/blog/2019/11/how-does-the-flu-vaccine-actually-work/
@Rheannon I'm aware of how they work. I have 5x covid shots and a flu shot. I'm with the public every day so I'm not taking chances.
@artisanrox @Ellico2020bis So then what would you call what the majority of people experienced across the globe - you know - when we went out, only with masks on, and only rarely? Sequestered ourselves whenever we got sick - even further within our homes? Pretty sure people in Italy, France, China, America, and so on tried to slow the spread of COVID.
Seems like a near-globally shared experience, to me. One might call it a near-global mandate
@Rheannon @artisanrox OK, so "SAH" means "stay at home?" That's what I was asking. Calm the fuck down.
@Ellico2020bis That wasn't at you, that was at artisanrox w/ his claim against near-global SAH. I'm good :).
@Rheannon @Ellico2020bis It literally wasn't global.
Like there were entire states that didn't even stop for a full week during the whole thing.
Our "lockdown" was only like 44% of our entire workforce grid.
People still went to work in "essential services" lije grocery stores where they deal with the public *every day*.
@artisanrox @Rheannon Man, I feel like not communicating effectively. I can't tell whether your're an idiot or a supporter of "essential workers," who got screwed the whole time.
@artisanrox @Rheannon What's "SAH?" Just an honest question. Though I haven't encountered "immunity debt" as a term, I get it; it seems like a thing that could happen to me. Convince me otherwise, I have a hard science degree (not in bio science). I'm listening.