@jessecoynelson@CSB Survived? I've had one flu shot - Ford's 1976 Swine Flu. My last "upper respiratory" was 2015. I tried every thing to catch Covid to build my immune system. I decided Covid is a fraud
@Nazareno catching covid does not "build" your immune system. Infection-based immunity is extraordinarily fleeting and does not pay dividends on the damage the virus has already done, even in asymptomatic infections (which you may have had). Symptoms are not the same as underlying disease. HIV is famous for starting as a cold and then doing all of its damage silently
Furthermore, the immune system is not analogous to a muscle that needs to be used to be kept in shape, and the complete opposite is true -- there is no material benefit to any amount of viral infections. The immune system stays stronger the less it is activated, because it is ultimately a finite resource
With SARS-CoV-2 in particular, there is evidence that it sticks around and causes chronic T cell activation. There are only so many naive/undifferentiated T cells the thymus can supply before it shrinks (it normally shrinks with age)
@CurrentBias@CSB@Nazareno
Did you type that comment yourself, or copy and paste? If you copied and pasted, you should link. That would be "egregious." If not, some nice wordage.
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