Lol Santara will have to do rooming assignments



Ty my child

CONGRATS!



Would be sad without my friend Widowmaker

This post was edited by Skinned on Nov 18 2020 08:46pm

Congrats!
At this rate, pard will soon need its own kindergarten, lol.

True, we’ll also have to find another Druid since beo is MIA

I could enjoy having a beer with you though mate

Recent, preliminary studies contradict earlier fears about quickly waning immunity to covid, instead suggest a long-lasting immune response:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/health/coronavirus-immunity.html
https://archive.is/bPcUo

If confirmed, that's really great news and suggests that this virus should permanently lose its threat once the first round of vaccinations has been deployed.

That's good.

Quickly waning immunity was a worst case scenario, essentially ensuring that it never goes away and requiring several boosters just to maintain a non-pandemic level of spread.

Something else that's concerning though is your learned immunity isn't an immediate response. The second time you're exposed to something it can still take up to 2 weeks for your learned immunity to come to full force. And since Covid is contagious way before that, it would require many reexposures to get your immune system to a level of alertness that it would stop you from being contagious. So it's still possible you are a carrier and spreader even though you are immune, at least for a while until you've come into contact with the virus something ridiculous like 5 times.

I learned in medical school that everything you're taught about the immune system in high school is inaccurate. The immune system is like a term paper thrown together at the last minute, and if it goes even slightly out of wack it tanks your grade. Honestly it's a miracle that autoimmune disorders aren't way way more common.

I thoroughly believe that anybody who studies the immune system in depth can no longer believe in intelligent design.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Nov 18 2020 11:00pm

update to this https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/11/18/california-medical-association-brass-attended-french-laundry-dinner-with-newsom-kinney-1336924

California doctors' top brass attended French Laundry dinner with Newsom

OAKLAND — California Medical Association officials were among the guests seated next to Gov. Gavin Newsom at a top California political operative’s opulent birthday dinner at the French Laundry restaurant this month.



so the governor of Cali and top medical professionals in Cali can flout their own rules, but if you have grandma over for Thanksgiving or are a minority operating a family store, you can be fined or sent to prison.



This post was edited by excellence on Nov 18 2020 11:17pm

Regarding the bolded part: we have pretty solid data and evidence showing that the contagiousness of an infected person is directly linked to the viral load in his/her body. Even if the immune system needs some ramp up time to get into full swing, an immune response at X% (0 < X < 100) should still keep the viral load lower than in a person without immunity, and thus reduce contagiousness.

Furthermore, the available data with have so far suggests that asymptomatic cases are responsible for only a very tiny fraction of the spread; the big drivers of this pandemic are the symptomatic and the presymptomatic carriers. Persons who were vaccinated should have a much higher likelihood of experiencing an asymptomatic course of the disease upon reinfection.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Nov 18 2020 11:25pm

The point of my post is mostly that you should take nothing for granted about the immune system. It is not a given that it ever works the way we are taught it should