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.
@Rheannon @Ellico2020bis There was no near-global SAH mandate.
@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.
@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.
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* other than apparent-Covid in March 2020, which had me one step from seeking medical attention, then suddenly broke
@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.